This one-day symposium will bring together international practitioners, policy makers, and academics in the field of multiculturalism to explore the questions raised by the challenges of education and multicultural societies in a comparative perspective.

Abstracts are requested for papers on the theories and practices of multiculturalism and education in an international perspective. Potential topics for the symposium include:

• Multicultural education; critical reflections
• Faith-based schooling in a multicultural society
• Multicultural and multifaith societies in practice
• Religious tolerance/intolerance, education and
multiculturalism
• Citizenship, integration, diversity and integration
• Models of presenting religion(s) in multicultural
curriculum
• Religious extremism, youth and multicultural
society
• Educational/Social inclusion/exclusion in a
multicultural society
• Education and tackling extremism