Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training / / ed. by Anwei Feng, Michael Byram, Mike Fleming.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arakelian, Catharine,; Byram, Mike,; Feng, Anwei,; Finkbeiner, Claudia,; Fleming, Mike,; Garcia, María del Carmen Mendez,; Glaser, Evelyne,; Guilherme, Manuela,; Holliday, Adrian,; Jack, Gavin,; Lund, Anne Davidson-,; Lundgren, Ulla,; Mughan, Terry,; Roberts, Celia,; Ryan, Phyllis,; Tomalin, Barry,
• HerausgeberIn: Byram, Michael,; Feng, Anwei,; Fleming, Mike,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

The development of intercultural competence is the avowed purpose of teachers/trainers in commercial training and further and higher education, and yet the approaches are often seen as different and even in opposition. This book shows that there is complementarity in ‘education’ and ‘training’ in theory and in practice. The first group of chapters focuses on analysis of intercultural experience and the competence needed to be successful in that experience. The following chapters describe the practice of courses in both commercial and educational contexts where it becomes evident that ‘education’ and ‘training’ are indeed complementary without denying the tensions which exist and the expectations different learner groups may have. This book is thus not simply another discussion of the theory of interculturality but a juxtaposition of theory and practice to the benefit of both.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Investigations of Intercultural Encounters and Learning -- 1. Cultures of Organisations Meet Ethno-linguistic Cultures: Narratives in Job Interviews -- 2. Exporting the Multiple Market Experience and the SME Intercultural Paradigm -- 3. Evolving Intercultural Identity During Living and Studying Abroad: Five Mexican Women Graduate Students -- 4. Becoming Interculturally Competent in a Third Space -- Part 2: Refl ections on Teaching and Learning Programmes -- 5. A Critical Perspective on Teaching Intercultural Competence in a Management Department -- 6. Applying the Principles: Instruments for Intercultural Business Training -- 7. Intercultural Teacher: A Case Study of a Course -- 8. Using ‘Human Global Positioning System’ as a Navigation Tool to the Hidden Dimension of Culture -- 9. Professional Training: Creating Intercultural Space in Multi-ethnic Workplaces -- 10. The Pragmatics of Intercultural Competence in Education and Training: A Cross-national Experiment on ‘Diversity Management’ -- Afterword -- Index