i-iv -- Table of Contents -- The relevance of dialogue analysis in the study of multicultural schools -- Forms of communication in multicultural classrooms: A way of exploring dialogue -- The dynamics of identity in multicultural schools -- Dialogues and multiculturalism: Power and intercultural competencies -- Integration: The road to success in school? A study among minority youth in the Netherlands -- What else are students learning? A critical dialogue analysis of a multi-cultural classroom -- Metacommunication in classroom interaction -- The practice of relation-building by ethnic minority children: Investigating into how Chinese children in Northern Ireland deal with ethnic difference -- Towards an intercultural dialogue in and around the school in Mexico: Problems, reflections and new perspectives -- No penalty, but a...? − About monolingual teachers' dialogues in multilingual classrooms -- Adaptation of Caucasian children to multicultural Russian schools: An example from the Yaroslavl region -- Cooperation and conflict management in the playground: A study of Dutch and Andalusian play behaviour -- Construction of knowledge in bilingual German-French history lessons: Interactive emergence of "common ground" -- "Constructing the other": Discursive processes in academic and social labelling -- Theory and practice of intercultural and multicultural education in the Czech Republic -- Political models and local practice: The production of ethnicity in the schools of the Parisian periphery -- Dialogue and teaching in multicultural settings -- Instructive dialogues: Participation in dyadic interactions in multicultural classrooms -- Collaboration patterns in a multi-ethnic classroom in the Netherlands: Differences in the reconstruction of institutional norms and ethnicity -- Disengagement and teacher-student interactions in two Dutch multi-ethnic schools -- Complex patterns in classroom discourse -- List of Contributors