| Description |
1 online resource (132 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
New perspectives on teaching interculturality |
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New perspectives on teaching interculturality.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part 1. Becoming aware of the paradoxes of interculturality. The doxa of interculturality -- Stances towards alternative knowledge -- The Achilles' heels of interculturality -- Part 2. Dealing with paradoxes of interculturality. Towards a diversity of thoughts -- Criticality (of criticality) -- Unthink and rethink -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Offering a unique reading experience, this book examines the epistemologies of interculturality and explores potential routes to review and revisit the notion anew. Grounded in different sociocultural, economic and political perspectives around the world, interculturality in education and research bears a paradoxical attribute of 'contradictions' and 'inconsistencies', making it a polysemous and flexible notion that has no definitive diagnosis and requires constant unthinking and rethinking. The author provides a toolbox of 'out-of-box ideas' in the form of fragmental yet standalone writings and follow-up questions concerning stereotypes about the very notion of interculturality and conceptual and methodological flaws in the way it is used. Readers are encouraged to critically reflect about interculturality as it stands today in global research and education. In identifying the paradoxes of interculturality and proposing alternative directions, the book stimulates a diversity of thoughts about the notion that goes beyond the 'West'. The book will be an essential reading for scholars, students and educators interested in education philosophy, applied linguistics and the broad field of intercultural communication education"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education and has widely published in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the 'canon' of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin's idée fixes in his works over the past 20 years. His recent publications with Routledge include the coedited volumes Teaching Interculturality 'Otherwise', Academic Experiences of International Students in Chinese Higher Education and the coauthored title Revitalizing Interculturality in Education: Chinese Minzu as a Companion, etc. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 03, 2023). |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Intercultural communication in education.
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Multicultural education.
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EDUCATION / Multicultural Education.
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EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Intercultural communication in education. (OCoLC)fst01909730
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Multicultural education. (OCoLC)fst01028816
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dervin, Fred, 1974- Paradoxes of interculturality New York : Routledge, 2023 9781032442150 (DLC) 2022043457 |
| ISBN |
9781003371052 electronic book |
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1003371051 electronic book |
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9781000844788 electronic book |
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1000844781 electronic book |
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1000844773 electronic book |
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9781000844771 (electronic book) |
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9781032442150 hardcover |
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9781032442167 paperback |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003371052 doi |
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