EDUCATION FOR INTERCULTURAL CITIZENSHIP: CONCEPTS AND COMPARISONS.Geof Alred, Mike Byram, and Mike Fleming (Eds.). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2006. Pp. xi + 254. $42.95 paper.

This volume is the latest in the Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education series. The concept of interculturalism that underlies the editors' perspective emerged largely from the foreign language education context, but in this volume, it is applied to the case of citizenship education in a number of cases. The case studies are made especially strong by the inclusion of what can best be termed an ethical or moral perspective; ultimately, as the editors note, “an intercultural perspective on citizenship education also identifies ethical issues more clearly” (p. 3). Included in the volume are both theoretical rationales for intercultural citizenship education (especially Byram's excellent and powerful chapter, “Developing a Concept of Intercultural Education”) and a wide array of case studies, most from Asia and Europe. Interestingly, the major gap in the volume is the complete absence of Africa (and, indeed, of Latin America, save Mexico) from the cases explored—a gap that one hopes will later be filled in the literature inspired by this work.