Non-Inclusive Education in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparative Studies of Teaching Ethnicity, Religion and Gender

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This book presents research into inclusive education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), written by scholars based in CEE. Inclusive education has become a framework for understanding and embracing diversity but most of the research in this area has been carried out in intercultural or culturally diverse settings within a relatively inclusive and open framework of democratic/liberal and multicultural Western societies. Unlike many Western societies, the realities of CEE countries are often much less diverse and connected with different fragile historical and political processes, which puts tackling sensitive topics in a different context. The editors and contributors address the dominant Western ways of looking at inclusive and global education in CEE. They argue that Western leveraged pedagogy has been imposed on CEE and outline the context-specific problems of teaching global education in CEE. Collectively, the chapters offer critical responses to the issues of exclusion and exclusionary practices of 'silenced' minorities in CEE. Written by academics based in Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary Poland, Romania and Russia, the book cover topics including Roma genocide in Poland, teaching about Islam and teaching about LGBTQ+ issues. The book includes a preface written by Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, USA.

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Non-Inclusive Education in Central and Eastern Europe is an important voice in the discussion of the shape and perspectives of religious discourse and inclusive education It addresses the key problems and challenges faced by educators and teachers in Central and Eastern Europe nowadays and is an important point for reflection on cultures, religions, and educational policy. -- Krzysztof Sawicki * Zeitschrift fr Religions- und Geistesgeschichte *
This is a book that provides an extremely unique collection of voices sharing new knowledge and learning on approaches to inclusive education through the transformation of CCE states over the years. * Marlon Lee Moncrieffe, School of Education, University of Brighton, UK *

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Katarzyna Grak-Sosnowska is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies and Head of the Middle East and Central Asia Unit at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. Urszula Markowska-Manista is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Warsaw, Poland.