Intercultural Experience and Education

Geof Alred, Michael Byram, Mike Fleming (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2002
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-85359-606-3 (ISBN)

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This book explores the educational significance of intercultural experience. It offers a broader conception of interculturality than commonly found in the area of foreign language teaching. It aims to encourage dialogue and interchange across this range, and beyond, to stimulate thinking about the educational value of intercultural experience.

This edited volume explores the educational significance of intercultural experience. It offers a broader conception of interculturality than commonly found in the area of foreign language teaching. Contributors represent a diverse range of academic and professional interests. The aim of the book is to encourage dialogue and interchange across this range, and beyond, to stimulate thinking about the educational value of intercultural experience.

The editors are all members of the School of Education, University of Durham, interested in interdisciplinary approaches to intercultural experience. Geof Alred is a counsellor and counsellor trainer. His research interests include language in therapy, mentoring, and intercultural experience, in particular student residence abroad. Mike Byram studied languages and literature before becoming interested in the intercultural dimension of language education and ultimately in educational experience beyond the classroom. Mike Fleming is Director of Initial Teacher Training. His research interests include the teaching of English and drama and in particular the use of drama as a form of intercultural education.

Foreword

Series Editors’ Preface

Contributors’ Biographical Notes

1 Geof Alred, Mike Byram and Mike Fleming: Introduction

2 Geof Alred: Becoming a ‘Better Stranger’: A Therapeutic Perspective on Intercultural Experience and/as Education

3 Lothar Bredella: For a Flexible Model of Intercultural Understanding

4 Mike Byram: On Being ‘Bicultural’ and ‘Intercultural’

5 Leah Davcheva: Learning to be Intercultural

6 Mike Fleming: Intercultural Experience and Drama

7 Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune: An Experience of Interculturality: Student Travellers Abroad

8 Celia Roberts: Ethnography and Cultural Practice: Ways of Learning During Residence Abroad

9 Phyllis M. Ryan: Searching for the Intercultural Person

10 Amita Sen Gupta: Changing the Focus: A Discussion of the Dynamics of the Intercultural Experience

11 David Stevens: English for the English: An Intercultural Approach

12 Susanne Weber: A Framework for Teaching and Learning ‘Intercultural Competence’

13 Geneviève Zarate: The Recognition of Intercultural Competences: From Individual Experience to Certification

Lothar Bredella: Afterword: What Does it Mean to be Intercultural

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.11.2002
Reihe/Serie	Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	328 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-85359-606-X / 185359606X
ISBN-13	978-1-85359-606-3 / 9781853596063
Zustand	Neuware