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Interculturality as an Object of Research and Education

Observing, Reflecting and Critiquing

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Authors:
  1. Fred Dervin

    1. Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Ning Chen

    1. Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  • Adds to current critical discussions of interculturality as an object of research and education
  • Proposes a reflexive and critical method to enrich and confront one’s own take on the notion of interculturality
  • Positions language centrally in the discussion on interculturality

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. On the Bridge of INTERCULTURALITY

    • Fred Dervin, Ning Chen
    Pages 1-9

  3. INTERCULTURALITY as a Deafening and Blinding Ideological Notion

    • Fred Dervin, Ning Chen
    Pages 11-25

  4. Interculturality-As-Altering

    • Fred Dervin, Ning Chen
    Pages 27-34

  5. The Power of Mirroring: Towards a Catoptric of INTERCULTURALITY

    • Fred Dervin, Ning Chen
    Pages 35-45

  6. Observality for ‘Silent’ Reflexivity and Criticality

    • Fred Dervin, Ning Chen
    Pages 47-57

  7. Observing Our Observality

    • Fred Dervin, Ning Chen
    Pages 59-83

  8. Accepting to Be Naïve like a Fool

    • Fred Dervin, Ning Chen
    Pages 85-91
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About this book

This book proposes a new method for working on the complex and polysemic notion of interculturality, aimed at scholars, students and educators who have an interest in enriching and challenging their own take on this somewhat controversial scientific notion. Multiple examples of observability made by the authors are provided to illustrate the method. The book helps readers to look at themselves as ‘producers’, ‘consumers’ and ‘promoters’ of selected knowledge of interculturality. This book represents an original contribution to the field, by introducing the importance of observation and reflexivity in building up varied epistemic engagements with the notion of interculturality.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Fred Dervin, Ning Chen

About the authors

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specialises in interculturality in education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education and has published widely in different languages on identity, the ‘intercultural’ and mobility/migration. His latest books include: ‘Intercultural Communication Education: ‘Interculturality in Fragments: A reflexive Perspective’ (Dervin, Springer, 2022) and ‘Interculturality, Reflexivity and Criticality in Teacher Education’ (Dervin, Cambridge University Press, 2023). Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ‘canon’ of intercultural communication education research has been one of Professor Dervin’s priorities in his work. 
  
Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr 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. His latest books include: ‘Interculturality Between East and West: Unthink, Dialogue, and Rethink’ (with Dervin et al., Springer, 2022) and ‘Change and Exchange in Global Education: Learning with Chinese Stories of Interculturality’ (with Yuan, Dervin and Sude, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interculturality as an Object of Research and Education

  • Book Subtitle: Observing, Reflecting and Critiquing

  • Authors: Fred Dervin, Ning Chen

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1502-6

  • 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. 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1501-9Published: 09 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1502-6Published: 08 April 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 91

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Educational Philosophy, Sociology of Education, Higher Education

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