The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality in Communication and Education

Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Dervin specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He is widely published in different languages (over 200 articles and 80 books). Recent books published with Routledge include Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023), The Paradoxes of Interculturality: A Toolbox of Out-of-the-box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education (2022), and Flexing Interculturality (with Hamza R’boul; 2023). Over a career of 25 years, Dervin has made substantial contributions to scholarship on interculturality in both communication and education.

1. Introduction Part I: INTERROGATING AND PROBLEMATIZING CRITICAL AND INTERCULTURALITY 2. What constitutes a critical intercultural communication perspective? The Significance of negation and specification 3. Critical interculturality in a global perspective: A matter of geopolitical position, sociocultural nexus, and existential relevance 4. Epistemological dilemmas in teaching critical interculturality: Ideologies and the ‘pseudo-critical’ 5. What’s in a concept? An exploration of ‘interculturality’ Part II: CRITICAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON INTERCULTURALITY 6. Critical pedagogy, deconstruction and the promises of interculturality 7. Echoes of critical interculturality: World cinema, polycentric perspectives, and polyvocality 8. Resisting neoliberal influences through a dynamic approach to intercultural education 9. Critical interculturality in tourism communication 10. Stay critiCUL – The imperative for educators to take a critical and reflexive approach to culture, diversity, and interculturality in their classroom practice Part III: LANGUAGE AND CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY – CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY IN LANGUAGE 11. Language, meaning potential and bicritical interculturality in healthcare 12. Multilingual practices in higher education for enhancing critical interculturality 13. The role of culture and interculturality in language teacher education: Insights into the educational context of Austria 14. Critical interculturality in an English textbook for higher education in China 15. Critical interculturality in English language education: gaslighting, myths and learning from literature 16. Fostering critical interculturality in foreign language education 17. Intercultural learning as a process in Chinese language education Part IV: RESEARCHING INTERCULTURALITY CRITICALLY 18. Post qualitative inquiry into critical interculturality 19. Getting critical about critical interculturality: Researching international schools critically and empathetically 20. Critical reflexivity through autoethnography: Interculturality and in-between experiences 21. Walking our landscape as interculturality. A visual essay in resonances 22. Queering as an inspiration for (further) critical interculturality Part V: TEACHING CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY 23. Challenging the dichotomy of (anti)-essentialism: A multi-perspective critical approach to teaching interculturality 24. When interculturality and business meet: A critical turn in Portuguese higher education 25. (Re)thinking critical intercultural communication pedagogy: Teaching and learning in response to shifting cultural contexts 26. Critical interculturality in the Australian school classroom 27. Cultivating criticality: Notions of “critical” applied to teaching and learning about intercultural communication in a higher education setting 28. Teaching critical interculturality to social work students 29. Re-envisioning “the core intercultural communication course” as a critical intercultural communication course Part VI: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES BEYOND THE ‘WEST’? 30. Whiteness in scholarship on interculturality from the global north/s 31. Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America 32. Education for sustainable interculturality 33. Post-secularity: Religion and spirituality for critical intercultural education 34. Perceptions and constructions of ideologies of interculturality 35. Provisional denouement