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Engaging with the topic of critical intercultural education at tertiary level, the book aims to strengthen what critical intercultural communication means and facilitate its implementation in higher education classrooms.
List of contents
1: Can You Imagine? An Imaginary of Finland's Higher Education as Anti-Oppressive, Intersectional Practice 2: Developing Critical Intercultural Competence through Understanding the Location, Product and Processes of Dialogue 3: Towards Critical Intercultural Training for Public Service Interpreters 4: Student Experiences of Critical Multilingual and Intercultural Communication Competence Assessment in Higher Education 5: Engaging Artistic Practices in the Seminar Room: Collaging as Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy 6: Finnish Boozing Is Like Skiing through the Snow in Winter Time: Critical Analysis of Blogging about Finnishness during a National Cinema Course 7: Email in International Business Settings: Classroom Activities for Students to Practise and Critically Reflect on their Communicative Practices 8: Playing Critically: Using Digital Intercultural Simulation Games in Higher Education
About the author
Mélodine Sommier is an academy research fellow (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). Her work concentrates on processes of in- and exclusion at the discursive and interactional levels, and in urban settings through her work on racial landscapes.
Anssi Roiha works as a university lecturer in foreign language didactics (University of Turku, Finland). His main research interests are foreign language teaching and learning, bilingual education, differentiation and intercultural education.
Malgorzata Lahti is Senior Lecturer in Communication (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). She has co-run an international master's programme in intercultural communication and has extensive experience teaching in the area. Her research interests include interculturality and multilingualism in interactions in organisational and academic contexts.
Summary
Engaging with the topic of critical intercultural education at tertiary level, the book aims to strengthen what critical intercultural communication means and facilitate its implementation in higher education classrooms.
