Overview
- Conceptualizes interculturality in an original way
- Focuses on the importance of language in interculturality
- Discusses the translation of words used in interculturality
Part of the book series: Encounters between East and West (EEWIP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book urges readers to develop a radical capacity to unthink and rethink interculturality, through multiple, pluri-perspectival and honest dialogues between the authors, and their students. This book does not give interculturality a normative scaffolding but envisages it differently by identifying some of its polyphonic textures. China’s rich engagement with interculturality serves to support the importance of being curious about other ways of thinking about the notion beyond the ‘West’ only. As such, the issues of culture, identity, language, translation, intercultural competence and silent transformations (amongst others) are re-evaluated in a different light. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insights for readers with an interest in interculturality.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and Distinguished and Visiting Professor at different universities around the world. Dervin has written extensively about interculturality in (teacher) education, proposing to systematise the use of critical and reflexive perspectives. His book Interculturality in Education (2016) has contributed to opening up new vistas on intercultural encounters.
Sude is Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China. His research interests include multicultural education, diversity in teacher education and intercultural competence in superdiverse institutions. Considered as one of the most influential scholars in the field of Chinese Minzu education, Sude is co-author of An Introduction to Ethnic Minority Education in China: Policies and Practices (2020).
Mei Yuan is Associate Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China. Yuan has led many researchprojects on Minzu and intercultural education and is recipient of many awards for her contributions to ‘minority’ education. She has also published many articles on, e.g. Minzu education and internationalisation in top international journals.
Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Helsinki (Finland). Chen specialises in diversity in higher education. His publications focus on intercultural teacher training and education, well-being in Chinese higher education and the interplay between internationalisation of universities and interculturality.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interculturality Between East and West
Book Subtitle: Unthink, Dialogue and Rethink
Authors: Fred Dervin, Sude, Mei Yuan, Ning Chen
Series Title: Encounters between East and West
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8492-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8491-3Published: 06 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8494-4Published: 07 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-8492-0Published: 05 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2364-6721
Series E-ISSN: 2364-673X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 161
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Philosophy