Interculturality Between East and West

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and Distinguished and Visiting Professor at different universities around the world. Dervin has written extensively about interculturality in (teacher) education, proposing to systematise the use of critical and reflexive perspectives. His book Interculturality in Education (2016) has contributed to opening up new vistas on intercultural encounters. Sude is Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China. His research interests include multicultural education, diversity in teacher education and intercultural competence in superdiverse institutions.  Considered as one of the most influential scholars in the field of Chinese Minzu education, Sude is co-author of An Introduction to Ethnic Minority Education in China: Policies and Practices (2020). Mei Yuan is Associate Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China. Yuan has led many researchprojects on Minzu and intercultural education and is recipient of many awards for her contributions to ‘minority’ education. She has also published many articles on, e.g. Minzu education and internationalisation in top international journals. Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Helsinki (Finland). 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. 

Introduction.- The idea of culture is worn out.- Language is not what we might think it is.- Facilitating interculturality by unthinking and rethinking our relation to language.- Translating is not treason.- Talking to each other about interculturality.- First steps towards interculturality.- Rethinking identity.- Listening to those who experience interculturality to learn about what it is and how to ‘do’ it.- Examining other ways of engaging with interculturality.- Silent transformations with China.- Debunking intercultural competence.