"The chapters in this book were originally presented as papers at the ... Bellagio Citizenship Education and Diversity Conference held at the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, June 17-21, 2002"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Migration, citizenship, and education / Stephen Castles -- The higher learning : educational availability and flexible citizenship in global space / Aihwa Ong -- Unity and diversity in democratic multicultural education : creative and destructive tensions / Amy Gutmann -- Culture versus citizenship : the challenge of racialized citizenship in the United States / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Citizenship and multicultural education in Canada : from assimilation to social cohension / Reva Joshee -- Citizenship education and political literacy in South Africa / Kogila A. Moodley and Heribert Adam -- Citizenship and education in Brazil : the contribution of Indian peoples' and Blacks' struggles for citizenship and recognition / Petronilha Beatriz Gonves e Silva -- Diversity and citizenship education in England / Peter Figueroa -- Ethnic diversity and citizenship education in Germany / Sigrid Luchtenberg -- Citizenship education and ethnic issues in Russia / Isak D. Froumin -- Expanding the borders of the nation : ethnic diversity and citizenship education in Japan / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu -- Crisis of citizenship education in the Indian Republic : contestation between cultural monists and pluralists / T.K. Oommen -- Ethnic diversity and citizenship education in the People's Republic of China / Wan Minggang -- Diversity and citizenship education in Israel / Moshe Tatar -- Educating for citizenship in the new Palestine / Fouad Moughrabi -- Diversity, globalization, and democratic education : curriculum possibilities / Walter C. Parker.