Reflecting on and with the ‘More-than-Human’ in Education

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages on identity, the ‘intercultural’ and mobility/migration (over 170 articles and 70 books). His latest books include Dervin (2022) Fragments in Interculturality: A Reflexive Approach (Springer); Dervin (2022) Interculturality in Teacher Education (Cambridge University Press), Dervin & Tan (2022) Supercriticality and Interculturality (Springer); and Dervin & Jacobsson (2022) Intercultural Communication Education (Springer). Dervin has made extensive contributions to revising the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ‘canon’ of intercultural communication education research. 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 is Recipient of prestigious awards for her contributions to ethnic education. She has co-authored the book Interculturality Between East and West (Dervin, Sude, Yuan & Chen, 2022) and has also published many articles on topics like Minzu education and internationalization in top international journals.

Introduction.- Chapter 1 - Making sense of interculturality.- Chapter 2 - The More-than-human and interculturality.- Chapter 3 – Chinese things for interculturality.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.