Intercultural Communication Education

This book explores the notion of interculturality in education and supports scholars in their discovery of the notion. Continuing the author's previous work, the book urges (communication) education researchers and educators to 'interculturalize' interculturality. This book corresponds to the authors' endeavor to complexify the way interculturality is discussed, expressed, (co-)constructed and advocated in different parts of the world and in different languages. To interculturalize interculturality is to expand the way we deal with the notion as an object of scientific and educational discourse, noting the dominating voices and allowing for silenced voices that are rarely heard around interculturality to emerge. This book is based on broken realities and (the authors') rebellious dreams. As two researchers and educators with a long experience examining discourses of interculturality, this book represents the authors' program for the future of intercultural communication education. The book is divided into three 'tableaus' (living descriptions) depicting today's 'broken' realities of interculturality and two 'rebellious' dreams of what it could be in research and education.

Proposes concepts and ideas to move further in problematizing interculturality in education 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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Tableau 1 The brushstroke of interculturality.- Tableau 2 Problematic realities: Interculturality from the past but still with us?.- Tableau 3Are critical approaches to interculturality contributing to interculturalizing interculturality?.- Dream 1 Polycentric alternatives: Thinking and analysing fiction and actuality.-Dream 2 Verblendungen (Bedazzlement).- Conclusion: Let's dream together!