Diversity, Intercultural Encounters, and Education

ISBN-13: 9781138107885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str.

Susana Goncalves (University of Lisbon;Markus A. Carpenter (Centro de Inovacao

Opis

This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book's theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and the interrogations of a new socio-political order or paradigm. Thus, it highlights some of the most poignant and challenging outcomes of cultural diversity faced more or less palpably by everyone everywhere in today's societies. The book's theme of multi- and pluriculturality is of particular current interest in the academic, socio-political, economic and entrepreneurial spheres. It covers Western and non-Western perspectives, representing a valuable resource in terms of international dialogue and experimentation. The chapters are complimentary, completing a rigorous theoretical framework offering detailed presentation and analysis of the phenomenon of diversity as encountered in society and the educational setting and at large viewed in a multidisciplinary multiperspective fashion. Among the theories and concepts represented are those intrinsic to sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history, literature, pedagogy, communication and linguistics.

Spis treści

Part I: Challenges of Diversity and Intercultural Encounters  1. Seen at a Distance: How Images, Spaces and Memories Shape Cultural Encounters  Susana Gonçalves  2. Multicultural Society in Europe: Beyond Multiculturalism  Maria Laura Lanzillo  3. The UK’s Ad Hoc Multiculturalism and the Rise of Britishness  Chris Gifford, Jamie Halsall and Santokh Singh Gill  4. Media and Interculturality: Mapping Theories, Projects and Gaps  Sofia José Santos  Part II: Identities Confronted and Renewed  5. Foundations of Culture of Conflict  Daniel Bar-Tal and Eman Nahhas  6. Intercultural Education: Learning from the Integrated Catholic and Protestant Schools in Northern Ireland  Claire McGlynn  7. On Being Invisible and Passing Through Walls: Toward a Pedagogy of Seeing and Being Scene  Christine Ballengee Morris and B. Stephen Carpenter, II  8. Identities and Diversities Among Young Europeans: Some Examples from the Eastern Borders  Alistair Ross  9. Separate by Choice, or Degrees of Separation  Markus A. Carpenter  10. The Mirrors’ Maze: On Emotional Aspects of Dealing with Differences in a Multicultural Society  Nilly Venezia  Part III: Post-Colonial, Post-Historical, Post-Modern Scenarios and Interrogations  11. "The Syndrome of Ernesto" and Multiculturalism: On Being a Teacher in Mozambique  António Cabrita  12. Memory, Hope and Post-Historical Politics in Multicultural Horizons  Francisco Naishtat  13. The Extinction of the Negative: Megamind, Mouffe and the Anti-Politics of Liberalism  Chan Nin and Chan Kwok-bun

O autorze

Susana Gonçalves is an Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic of Coimbra, a researcher at the Research Unit for Education and Training/University of Lisbon, Director of the Centre for the Study and Advancement of Pedagogy in Higher Education (CINEP) and Secretary General of the academic European Erasmus network CICE (Children’s identity and Citizenship in Europe).

Markus A. Carpenter is a sociologist and an ESL tutor at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. He has been a member of the Portuguese Association of Anglo-American studies since 1995 and is writing a dissertation on the cinematic adaptations of Bradbury’s works. He is also a Portuguese to English translator.