Abstract
Multicultural education aims to ensure equality, social justice, and respect for human rights and eliminate all forms of injustice, discrimination, segregation, xenophobia, sexism, prejudice, and stereotypes. Societal concerns such as discrimination, segregation, and stereotypes based on skin color, religion, ethnic origin, language, gender, socioeconomic status, and other factors keep this topic relevant. Addressing these issues should be a top priority for educational systems at all levels across the globe. As technology-mediated education is constantly growing, systematic and comprehensive school reform inevitably includes multicultural education. This chapter discusses the challenges of multicultural education in implementing digital pedagogy and how the use of digital technologies may facilitate multicultural education. Furthermore, this chapter examines how the use of digital technologies may facilitate collaborative learning as a tool for fostering multicultural education.
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Bećirović, S. (2023). Fostering Multicultural Education Through Digital Pedagogy. In: Digital Pedagogy. SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0444-0_9
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