Intercultural Experience and Education

✍ Scribed by Geof Alred (editor); Michael Byram (editor); Mike Fleming (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Series Editors’ Preface
Contributors’ Biographical Notes
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Becoming a ‘Better Stranger’: A Therapeutic Perspective on Intercultural Experience and/as Education
Chapter 3. For a Flexible Model of Intercultural Understanding
Chapter 4. On Being ‘Bicultural’ and ‘Intercultural’
Chapter 5. Learning To Be Intercultural
Chapter 6. Intercultural Experience and Drama
Chapter 7. An Experience of Interculturality: Student Travellers Abroad
Chapter 8. Ethnography and Cultural Practice: Ways of Learning During Residence Abroad
Chapter 9. Searching for the Intercultural Person
Chapter 10. Changing the Focus: A Discussion of the Dynamics of the Intercultural Experience
Chapter 11. English for the English: An Intercultural Approach
Chapter 12. A Framework for Teaching and Learning ‘Intercultural Competence’
Chapter 13. The Recognition of Intercultural Competences: From Individual Experience to Certification
Afterword: What Does it Mean to be Intercultural?
Index