This Handbook is the first comprehensive volume to focus entirely on the notion of interculturality, reflecting on what the addition of the adjective ‘critical’ means for research and teaching in interdisciplinary studies.
The book consists of 35 chapters, including a comprehensive introduction and conclusion. It aims to present current debates on critical interculturality and to help readers make sense of what the label implies and entails in global and local contexts, especially (where possible) beyond dominant scholarship and pedagogical practices. The chapters interrogate the use of terms in different languages to discuss interculturality, drawing on recent literature from as many different parts of the world as possible. Some contributors also problematise their own autobiographical engagement with critical interculturality in their chapters.
The book will be of interest to Master’s and PhD students in education, communication, and intercultural studies who wish to develop their knowledge of critical interculturality. Established researchers in these fields will also benefit from this invaluable and original source of essential reading.
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The ‘good’ interculturalist yesterday, today and tomorrow:
Everyday life-theory-research-policy-practice
29-31.8.2018
Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
Organised by the TENSION research group (Director: Fred Dervin)
Professor Leena Robertson, will serve as opponent, and Professor Fred Dervin as the custos.
The dissertation is published in the series Helsinki Studies in Education, number 26.
The dissertation is also available in electronic form through the E-thesis service.
Welcome! And congratulations to Ashley!
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Faculty of Educational Sciences, TENSION research group (diversities and interculturality in education), University of Helsinki
7.8.-23.8.2018
6 ECTS
Dr Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki
Doctoral candidate Yongjian Li, University of Helsinki
Doctoral candiate Haiqin Liu, University of Helsinki
Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. Students who have an interest in intercultural studies, intercultural / multicultural education and social justice, but also sociology and anthropology. No background in intercultural studies or Chinese language needed.
The world is changing dramatically, and we need new ways of explaining and understanding what is happening when people meet across borders (national, regional, cultural, linguistic borders, etc.).
In the first part of this exciting course, new critical perspectives from the fields of multicultural / intercultural communication and education are proposed. Basic concepts such as culture, globalisation, identity and diversity are introduced and critically reviewed.
The originality comes from using China to illustrate the second part of the course. The One Belt, One Road Initiative, which promotes connectivity and cooperation between different continents, is a great example of today’s new global world. The initiative aims to support infrastructure networks, as well as cultural and educational collaboration. This example is best suited to work on today’s interculturality.
Working together and with the lecturers, the participants will analyse different documents about the initiative and discuss what interculturality is and what it entails. The participants will learn to transfer the acquired knowledge and methods related to interculturality to other contexts.
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The contents of the latest issue of:
International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education (IJBIDE)
Volume 3, Issue 1, January – June 2018
Published: Semi-Annually in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 2379-7363; EISSN: 2379-7355;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
Editor-in-Chief: Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki, Finland), Julie Byrd Clark (Western University, Canada) and Yongjian Li (Renmin University of China, China and University of Helsinki, Finland)
Read the EDITORIAL (DERVIN/LI)
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