This volume gathers, analyses, discusses and evaluates results of current research on arts and cultural education in Europe, focusing on the challenges of cultural diversity. Cultural diversity is an increasingly characteristic feature of contemporary societies. Groups with different ethnic, social or cultural backgrounds coexist, interact and merge. The challenges of cultural diversity - its innovative potential as well as tensions and conflicts - are reflected in transnational discourses on education, culture, democracy, and citizenship. Transcultural approaches, multicultural education, and intercultural learning are key concepts. The same challenges are reflected in arts and cultural education within and outside schools, in teachers' and artists' training, cultural and educational policies, and research.

The thirteen chapters in this book report on nine countries represented in the European Network of Observatories in the Field of Arts and Cultural Education (ENO). They showcase good practices in research and teaching, foster the exchange of experiences, stimulate researchers and stakeholders and give insights into their professional practices.

Inhalt
Preface; Ernst Wagner, Lígia Ferro, Teunis IJdens, Luísa Veloso and João Teixeira Lopes.- Introduction; Lígia Ferro.- Arts Education and Diversity: Terms and Concepts; Ernst Wagner & Luísa Veloso.- National awareness and cultural diversity: conflicting values in arts education? Zoë Zernitz and Teunis IJdens.- Diversity-conscious arts education culture education foundations for new challenges in a heterogeneous society; Susanne Keuchel & Nadine Rousseau.- Who are 'they'? further education regarding diversity; Nana Eger, Constanze Schulte.- Intercultural education in Spain and the role of the arts: Research perspectives, knowledge gaps and directions for future research; Gemma Carbó & Nevelina Pachova.- Cultural diversity in Finnish arts education research; Eeva Anttila, Mirja Hiltunen, Timo Jokela, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Kai Lehikoinen & Tiina Pusa.- Awareness and consequences of ethnocultural diversity in policy and cultural education in the Netherlands; Lenie van den Bulk.- Multicultural education and its pitfalls: the case of popular non-governmental education programmes in Poland; Filip Schmidt.- Arts for multi-cultural diversity: A case study from England; Pat Thomson, Annie Thorpe & Holly Donagh.- Arts Education in Portugal: national curriculum and emancipatory projects; Pedro Abrantes, Lígia Ferro, João Teixeira Lopes, Luísa Veloso & Maria de Assis Swinnerton.- Theoretical concepts of the migration phenomenon within the professional discourse of arts education in Germany; Susanne Keuchel & Sandra Czerwonka.- Importance of Cultural Capital in the 21st-Century Teacher Education in Latvia; Austra Avotina and Ieva Margevica-Grinberga.- Some Remarks on the Context and the Current State of Arts Education Research in Austria; Aron Weigl & Michael Wimmer