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This book proposes a new method for working on the complex and polysemic notion of interculturality, aimed at scholars, students and educators who have an interest in enriching and challenging their own take on this somewhat controversial scientific notion. Multiple examples of observability made by the authors are provided to illustrate the method. The book helps readers to look at themselves as 'producers', 'consumers' and 'promoters' of selected knowledge of interculturality. This book represents an original contribution to the field, by introducing the importance of observation and reflexivity in building up varied epistemic engagements with the notion of interculturality.
List of contents
Chapter 1 On the bridge of Interculturality.- Chapter 2 Interculturality as a deafening and blinding ideological notion.- Chapter 3 Interculturality-as-altering.- Chapter 4 The power of Mirroring: Towards a catoptric of Interculturality.- Chapter 5 Observality for 'silent' reflexivity and criticality.- Chapter 6Observing our observality.- Chapter 7 Accepting to be naïve like a fool.- References.
About the author
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specialises in interculturality in education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education and has published widely in different languages on identity, the 'intercultural' and mobility/migration. His latest books include: 'Intercultural Communication Education: 'Interculturality in Fragments: A reflexive Perspective' (Dervin, Springer, 2022) and 'Interculturality, Reflexivity and Criticality in Teacher Education' (Dervin, Cambridge University Press, 2023). Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the 'canon' of intercultural communication education research has been one of Professor Dervin's priorities in his work.
Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr Chen specialises in diversity in higher education. His publications focus on intercultural teacher training and education, well-being in Chinese higher education and the interplay between internationalisation of universities and interculturality. His latest books include: 'Interculturality Between East and West: Unthink, Dialogue, and Rethink' (with Dervin et al., Springer, 2022) and 'Change and Exchange in Global Education: Learning with Chinese Stories of Interculturality' (with Yuan, Dervin and Sude, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
