Overview
- Provides a novel contribution through its interdisciplinarity and interconnected chapters
- Offers new and innovative reconceptualisations of themes such as cultural literacy and intercultural dialogue
- Grounded in real contexts of children, teachers and teacher educators
- Addresses global issues such as social responsibility and living together from multiple perspectives
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Cultural Literacy
- DIALLS project
- Cultural awareness in education
- Cultural identity in education
- Intercultural dialogue
- Intercultural curricula
- Children's development of dialogue and argumentation
- Inclusive education
- Educating cultural literacy
- European culture
- Open Access
- Literature and Cultural Studies
About this book
The book explores themes underpinning this unique interdisciplinary project, drawing together scholars from cultural studies, civics education and linguistics, psychologists, socio-cultural literacy researchers, teacher educators and digital learning experts. Each chapter of the book explores a theme that is common to the project, and celebrates its interdisciplinarity by exploring these themes through different lenses.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fiona Maine is a senior lecturer in literacy education at the University of Cambridge. Her research is focused on the responses of children as they read visual and multimodal texts together. She is the principal investigator and consortium leader for the three-year European project DIALLS which explores the role of dialogue supporting cultural literacy learning for young people in schools.
Maria Vrikki is a postdoctoral researcher working in the field of educational dialogue. Maria has worked on several research projects, earlier at Cambridge and currently in Cyprus, studying the quality of dialogue in the context of the classroom interaction and in the context of collaborative teacher professional development. She has collaborated with key scholars in the field, presented her work at international conferences and published her work in peer-reviewed journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding
Book Subtitle: Placing Cultural Literacy at the Heart of Learning
Editors: Fiona Maine, Maria Vrikki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71778-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71777-3Published: 27 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71780-3Published: 27 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71778-0Published: 26 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 163
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Psychology, Literature, general, Early Childhood Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Cross Cultural Psychology, Sociology of Education