Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training /

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

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 th...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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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

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