The critical and decolonial quest for intercultural epistemologies and discourses

Abstract

The Introduction to this Special Issue – Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD) starts the discussion about the terminologies currently used to describe the structures and relations in culturally diverse societies and provides a critical analysis of the academic debates and different accounts of the related issues. Finally, this Special Issue gives evidence of different types of praxis, that is, of different conceptual frameworks in articulation with practical implementations in different fields which nonetheless represent one vision of one particular experience in one context, that are indicative of possible perspectives and approaches already proved to be feasible, but not representative of general conclusions. It includes some articles which provide us with different philosophical, sociological and pedagogical perceptions, approaches and decisions to deal with the praxis of cultural diversity in education.