Teaching Interculturality 'Otherwise'

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and international mobilities in education, and has widely published in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ‘canon’ of intercultural communication education research has been one of his idées fixes in his works over the past 20 years. Mei Yuan is Associate Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China. Yuan has led many research projects on Minzu and intercultural education and internationalisation, and has been recognised and awarded several times for her contributions to ‘minority’ education. Sude is Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China and is considered one of the most influential scholars in the field of Chinese Minzu education. His research interests include multicultural education, diversity in teacher education, and intercultural competence in superdiverse institutions.

1. Introduction Part I The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Interculturally 2. Teaching and learning about interculturality in communication and management 3. Unity in diversity: Exploring intercultural teaching and learning practices in secondary education and teacher training in Austria 4. Teaching in intercultural classrooms: An Italian perspective 5. Teaching through learning about intercultural difference(s): Autoethnographic experiences of a teacher aide in an Australian regional secondary school 6. Interculturalism 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 7. Teaching interculturality: Changes in perspective (A story of change) 8. Is there any communication that isn’t intercultural? 9. Interculturality-as-altering: Observality as a method for ‘silent’ reflexivity and criticality 10. Interculturality holding hands with education for emergencies Part III. Insights into Interculturalising Interculturality 11. Interculturality ‘beyond’ culture: challenges and future possibilities 12. Interculturalising the teaching of interculturality in Swedish higher education 13. Mediated communication as an entryway into interculturality 14. Teaching interculturality: The ecology of self-reflection as a priority 15. A Finnish approach to promoting intercultural encountering in primary schools 16. Remarks and conclusion: Towards an endless and centerless glissando of interculturality 17. Afterword: Theorizing and teaching interculturality otherwise: What otherwise?