Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education

ISBN-13: 9781032588599 / Angielski

Fred Dervin

Opis

Takes intercultural research and education to a new level by focusing on how scholars, students and teachers can communicate around the notion Supports the reader in building up their reflexivity and criticality (two essential aspects of working on interculturality) Language and the issue of translation are given a central position in problematizing how to communicate around interculturality Stimulates new thinking on what scholars and educators can do about interculturality as an object of research and education

Spis treści

1. Interculturality is dead; long live interculturality!  2. (Un-)voicing  3. Scrutinizing  4. Nurturing and galvanizing  5. Communicating as a lesson in humility

O autorze

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ‘canon’ of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin’s idée fixes in his work over the past 20 years. He has published over 160 articles and 80 books in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. His latest books published with Routledge also include The Paradoxes of Interculturality and Intercultural Communication Education and Research (co-authored with R'boul).