Diversity - social, cultural, linguistic and ethnic - poses a challenge to all educational systems. Some authorities, schools and teachers look upon it as a problem, an obstacle to the achievement of
In these sixteen essays from eight European countries, contributors examine constructing evidence-based instructional policies, engaging language with symbolic policy and local practices, Germany after the PISA shock, English in Ireland post-primary schools, newcomers to Ireland, Irish higher education and diversity, German linguistic skills, assessing the impact of English language support, moving from English language support to plural awareness, moving from knowledge to learning, linguistic "third spaces" in education, and the ecology of mobile phone use in Wesbank, South Africa. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)