This edited volume offers insights into Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB+) in intercultural education, presenting new studies, teaching practices, and theoretical perspectives. Through these critical examinations, the book challenges our understanding of intercultural education as it is experienced in schools, higher education, and informal educational contexts. Section one provides an introduction to the book, tracing the evolution of DEIB+ and application. Section two explores intersectional areas in intercultural and diversity-sensitive education. Section three examines emerging research orientations, methods, and methodologies from both the Global North and Global South. The final section showcases promising practices that reimagine critical cultural competence, pluralism, intercultural teaching, and transformative approaches.

This volume features selected papers presented at the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) Conference 2024, entitled Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Education to Transform Society held at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, March 26-28, 2024.

Chapters 1, 2, 5 and 14 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Barbara Gross is Associate Professor in Intercultural Education at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She is Board Member of the IAIE and Managing Editor of the journal Intercultural Education. Her research interests include diversity-sensitive and critical intercultural education, (in)equity in education and society, intersectionality, and the internationalisation of education.

Martha Montero-Sieburth is Professor Emerita of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA. She co-leads informal care/social support in IMISCOE’s Family, Welfare, Care and Life Course Standing Committee. Her research focuses on teacher education, school-community ethnography, bilingualism, participatory research, and reflexivity in migration undertaken in the U.S., Latin America, Spain, and the Netherlands.