Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training

✍ Scribed by Anwei Feng (editor); Michael Byram (editor); Mike Fleming (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book demonstrates the complementarity of educational and training approaches to developing intercultural competence as represented by those who work in commercial training and those who work in further and higher education. It does so by presenting chapters of analysis and chapters describing courses in the two sectors.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
About the Authors
Foreword
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: Investigations of Intercultural Encounters and Learning
1. Cultures of Organisations Meet Ethno-linguistic Cultures: Narratives in Job Interviews
2. Exporting the Multiple Market Experience and the SME Intercultural Paradigm
3. Evolving Intercultural Identity During Living and Studying Abroad: Five Mexican Women Graduate Students
4. Becoming Interculturally Competent in a Third Space
Part 2: Refl ections on Teaching and Learning Programmes
5. A Critical Perspective on Teaching Intercultural Competence in a Management Department
6. Applying the Principles: Instruments for Intercultural Business Training
7. Intercultural Teacher: A Case Study of a Course
8. Using ‘Human Global Positioning System’ as a Navigation Tool to the Hidden Dimension of Culture
9. Professional Training: Creating Intercultural Space in Multi-ethnic Workplaces
10. The Pragmatics of Intercultural Competence in Education and Training: A Cross-national Experiment on ‘Diversity Management’
Afterword
Index