Intercultural Communication Education and Research

Hamza R'boul is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, China. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching and postcoloniality. Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specializes 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 Dervin's idée fixes in his works over the past 20 years. His recent publications with Routledge include The Paradoxes of Interculturality: A Toolbox of Out-of-the-box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education and the coedited volumes Teaching Interculturality "Otherwise", Academic Experiences of International Students in Chinese Higher Education.

1. De-monumentalizing taken-for-granted 'Mafahim' 2. Destabilizing the groundwork 3. Interpreting interpretations of interculturality 4. Unravelling discursive concepts underpinning intercultural narratives 5. Around 'Criticality': Framing the Socio-Political within Interculturality 6. Alternative Epistemic Languagings of Interculturality 7. A sort of conclusion