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Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality

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Authors:
  1. Fred Dervin

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

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  2. Andreas Jacobsson

    1. Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
    Pages 1-8

  3. Digging into Interculturality in Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. What Is Interculturality?

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 11-21

    3. Intercultural Communication Education as a Field of Research and Practice

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 23-33

    4. Does Interculturality Matter?

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 35-40

    5. Teaching About Interculturality

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 41-49

    6. What to Do with Our Intercultural Experiences?

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 51-55

    7. Does Intercultural Communication Education Work?

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 57-65

    8. Researching Intercultural Communication Education

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 67-73

    9. Can We Be ‘Good’ at Interculturality?

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 75-81

    10. Helping Students Examine Situations of Interculturality

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 83-88

    11. The Most Important Concepts of Critical and Reflexive Interculturality

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 89-95

  4. Critical and Reflexive Interculturality in Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Reflecting on Interculturality Through Critical and Reflexive Languaging

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 99-116

    3. Promoting Polycentric Knowledge

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 117-131

    4. Engaging Critically with Travel/Tourism and Interculturality

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 133-148

    5. Conclusion

      • Fred Dervin, Andreas Jacobsson
      Pages 149-155

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 157-168
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About this book

This book deals with the importance of interculturality in teacher education and training. It is mostly through the concept of intercultural competence that interculturality has been constructed and problematized for educators. However, different approaches and paradigms are available and differ and/or share similarities in terms of ideology, method, practice, theoretical frameworks, and ethical considerations. There is no global agreement on the meanings of interculturality in teacher education and training, although some principles might be common across national borders. There is thus a need for educators to consider these aspects of interculturality in education to be able to become better teachers in a diverse world like ours.

Reviews

“At a time where intercultural dialogue appears to be in crisis, books such as this one are needed now more than ever before. It is an engaging and bold read from start to finish and a work vitally needed for those involved in teacher education and training around the world. The authors yield valuable and new insights into the complex field of interculturality.”

 —Professor Fanhua Meng, Capital Normal University, China

  

“The notion of interculturality is used, and at times misused and abused, in education and research. In Dervin and Jacobsson’s book, with much needed boldness, we are called upon and inspired to be more critical and reflexive with this polysemic notion. Many of us in education have been hoping to get their hands on this excellent book.”

—Professor Emerita Marie-José Barbot, University of Lille, France

Authors and Affiliations

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

    Fred Dervin

  • Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden

    Andreas Jacobsson

About the authors

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also holds distinguished professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. Dervin specialises in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and academic mobility. 

Andreas Jacobsson is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. His research is primarily focused on intercultural communication education, interculturality and early childhood education, intercultural film and media, intercultural epistemology and philosophy.



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