Overview
- Urges the reader to benefit from input from interdisciplinarity and the arts to rethink interculturality
- Introduces global approaches to interculturality that have been neglected in scholarship of interculturality
- Makes a convincing case for adopting polycentric perspectives on interculturality
Part of the book series: Encounters between East and West (EEWIP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Critical approaches to interculturality
- Intercultural communication education
- Interculturalising interculturality
- Polycentric perspectives
- Intercultural competence
- Decolonizing interculturality
- Democratic culture
- Western ideologism
- Multipolar order
- Global stage
- Dominating voices
- Conflict and dissensus
- Economic forces
- Supranational institutions
- Power relations
- Beyond positivist objectivity
About this book
This book continues the author’s long-term reflections (over 20 years of scholarship and experience in intercultural communication education) around the fascinating and yet contestable notion of interculturality in education. As an unstable and polysemic notion, interculturality deserves to be opened up again and again and there is a need to engage with it continuously, observing, critiquing and problematizing its complexities. This book urges researchers, students and interculturalists to take the time to think carefully and deeply about interculturality and to find inspiration beyond the dominating ‘Western’ ideological world of intercultural research and education.
This book starts from short fragments written by the author for himself over a period of one year. In these short statements and notes about interculturality, the author reflects creatively on the questions he had in mind at the time of writing and offers some (temporary) answers, which, in turn, are questionedand revised. Over the 1000 fragments that the author wrote, he selected about 100, for which he wrote commentaries, referring to and reviewing current research and debates on interculturality in the process. One of the specificities of the book is to be highly multidisciplinary to help us get used to looking for inspiration in other fields of research and creativity.
The fragments can be read randomly – the reader may open the book at any page and pick any fragment. The author suggests reading each individual fragment first and then the accompanying explanatory texts. While reading them, the reader is also invited to reflect on any potential addition to what the author wrote – anything they might dis-/agree with, anything they would have wanted to discuss with the author. Questions have been added at the end of each chapter for readers to reflect on and to enrich their own criticality and reflexivity. The book serves as continuous guidance for engaging with interculturality.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is Director of the TENSION research group (diversities and interculturality in education) and Acting Director of the SEDUCE (Society, culture and education) doctoral school at Helsinki. Dervin also holds several distinguished and visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages on identity, the 'intercultural' and mobility/migration (over 150 articles and 60 books). His latest books include: Dervin, Sude, Yuan & Chen (2021) Interculturality East and West: Unthink, Dialogue, Rethink (Springer); Dervin & Yuan (2021) Revitalizing Interculturality, Minzu as a Companion (Routledge); Dervin & Jacobsson (2021) Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality (Palgrave MacMillan); Dervin & Simpson (2021) Interculturality and the Political within Education (Routledge).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interculturality in Fragments
Book Subtitle: A Reflexive Approach
Authors: Fred Dervin
Series Title: Encounters between East and West
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5383-5
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: 978-981-19-5382-8Published: 28 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5385-9Published: 29 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5383-5Published: 28 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2364-6721
Series E-ISSN: 2364-673X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 158
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Sociology of Education, Higher Education