Making Sense of the Intercultural: Finding DeCentred Threads

ISBN-13: 9781032337661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 132 str.

Adrian Holliday; Sara Amadasi

Opis

In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in what we consider to be an urgent quest for dealing with prejudice.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Distant lands and the everyday

Kati in Exia

Main events, storyline and concepts

Matt and the woman on the train

The ‘getting on with life’ grand narrative

Getting to the deCentred: The Moor’s account

What it takes to listen to the deCentred

Chapter 2: DeCentred threads resist the expected

The problem with ‘integration’

Working with children as expert agents of culture and identity

The intertwined nature of identity construction

A critical cosmopolitan, deCentred discourse of culture

Searching for hidden spaces

Chapter 3: Centred threads become blocks

Choosing to find threads

Dangerous threads: Kati and Eli

Talking to Wissaal about clothes: threads of ambivalence

Behind the scenes sense-making of threads or not threads

Kati, Eli and Matt visit ‘the foreign’: blocks and threads at work

Building interculturality

Chapter 4: Who are we as researchers?

Excavating our own researcher agendas

In this together

Chapter 5: Getting on with deCentred life

Meeting undergraduate students

Another unexpected deCentred thread

Connecting back to other events

Conclusions

O autorze

Dr Adrian Holliday is Professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Dr Sara Amadasi is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Modena & Reggio Emilia.