Diversity Education in the MENA Region

This book outlines a landscape of diversity education in the MENA region and its repercussions on learners' abilities, outcomes, and prospects. It addresses the concerns of language educators, curriculum designers, language education researchers, students and trainers. Theoretically, the issues of diversity, inclusion and equity share common principles and insights; yet they are not conceived of in this book as interchangeable. These subtle distinctions, as delineated in this book, show that they are complementary and include the principles of quality education which leverage human rights, sustainability and promotion of the human capital. What makes this book distinctive is that it reconsiders the existing pedagogical trends in terms of the current social upheavals, and with reference to the principles of development and progress needed in twenty-first century education.

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Hassan Abouabdelkader is Professor of Education at Moulay Ismail University, Meknes and SIST, British Education, Casablanca, Morocco. He is also a researcher and educational consultant whose professional experience in librarianship and language teaching, respectively at the British Council, Rabat, and Moulay Ismail University, earned him large insights in the field of Applied Linguistics. Abouabdelkader has also worked as a teacher trainer for twenty years at the Ecole Nationales Supérieure before joining the ENSAM, Moulay Ismail University, Meknès where he worked as Professor of English and coordinator of the Communication department. His academic works include his participation in several international conferences and seminars in the United States, Canada, and several European countries.

Barry Tomalin is Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, London, UK. He is Director of the Business Cultural Trainer's Certificate at International House, London and Editor in Chief and Editorial Consultant of two international online academic journals, the ICC-Language Journal and Training, Language and Culture.