Teaching interculturality 'otherwise' / / edited by Fred Dervin, Mei Yuan and Sude.

• TeilnehmendeR: Sude,; Yuan, Mei, 1986-; Dervin, Fred, 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on Teaching Interculturality Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)

This contribution considers classrooms as meeting places, in which students from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds learn from and with each other. Based on an open and dynamic understanding of culture that is strongly focused on the individual, interculturality is conceptualised as the multitude of dimensions in which human beings can show similarities and differences. Among others, these include their diverse experiences, viewpoints, life designs, values or approaches. Providing insights into Austrian secondary and teacher education, I advocate for a holistic and continuous approach to intercultural teaching and learning as well as a critical (language) teacher education. Starting from the existing diversity inside classrooms, activities integrating self-reflection, perspective-changing, and critical analysis form part of an intercultural pedagogy. Related objectives include fostering learners' open-mindedness, awareness of diversity, respect for otherness, reflectivity, empathy, and willingness to act. This promotion of cognitive, affective, and action-oriented dimensions is vital to adequately prepare students for global citizenship constituting a core objective of intercultural education.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I The nuts and bolts of teaching interculturally -- Chapter 2 Teaching and learning about interculturality in communication and management -- Chapter 3 Unity in diversity: Exploring intercultural teaching and learning practices in secondary education and teacher training in Austria -- Chapter 4 Teaching in intercultural classrooms: An Italian perspective -- Chapter 5 Teaching through learning about intercultural difference(s): Autoethnographic experiences of a teacher aide in an Australian regional secondary school -- Chapter 6 Interculturality and the university: The case of Jagdish Gundara and the Institute of Education Centre for Intercultural Education (UK) -- Part II Change in the teaching of interculturality -- Chapter 7 Teaching interculturality: Changes in perspective (A story of change) -- Chapter 8 Is there any communication that isn't intercultural? -- Chapter 9 Interculturality-as-altering: Observality as a method for 'silent' reflexivity and criticality -- Chapter 10 Interculturality holding hands with education for emergencies -- Part III Insights into interculturalising interculturality -- Chapter 11 Teaching interculturality 'beyond' culture: Challenges and future possibilities -- Chapter 12 Interculturalising the teaching of interculturality in Swedish higher education -- Chapter 13 Mediated communication as an entryway into interculturality -- Chapter 14 Teaching interculturality: The ecology of self-reflection as a priority -- Chapter 15 A Finnish approach to promoting intercultural encountering in primary schools -- Chapter 16 Remarks and conclusion: Towards an endless and centreless glissando of interculturality.

Chapter 17 Afterword: Theorising and teaching interculturality otherwise: What 'otherwise'? -- Index.