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Intercultural Experience and Education [Hardback]

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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.

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.

Recenzijas

This book is recommended for learners, professionals and researchers in the fields of intercultural communication and language education as well as the wider academic area of cultural studies. -- Masakazu Iino * Language & Education Vol 18 No 2, 2004 * This edited volume provides rich and engaging accounts of being intercultural and offers pedagogical insights into intercultural education in a variety of contexts. -- Jeeoweon Shin * Language Awareness Vol 13 No 2, 2004 * The book in its entirety, as well as selections of chapters, is appropriate reading for undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as teacher education programmes. -- Carla Chamberlain Quinlisk * International Journal of bilingual Education & Bilingualism Vol 7 No 4, 2004 *

Foreword vii
Series Editors' Preface x
Contributors' Biographical Notes xii
Introduction
1(13)
Geof Alred
Mike Byram
Mike Fleming
Becoming a `Better Stranger': A Therapeutic Perspective on Intercultural Experience and/as Education
14(17)
Geof Alred
For a Flexible Model of Intercultural Understanding
31(19)
Lothar Bredella
On Being `Bicultural' and `Intercultural'
50(17)
Mike Byram
Learning to be Intercultural
67(20)
Leah Davcheva
Intercultural Experience and Drama
87(14)
Mike Fleming
An Experience of Interculturality: Student Travellers Abroad
101(13)
Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune
Ethnography and Cultural Practice: Ways of Learning During Residence Abroad
114(17)
Celia Roberts
Searching for the Intercultural Person
131(24)
Phyllis M. Ryan
Changing the Focus: A Discussion of the Dynamics of the Intercultural Experience
155(24)
Amita Sen Gupta
English for the English: An Intercultural Approach
179(17)
David Stevens
A Framework for Teaching and Learning `Intercultural Competence'
196(17)
Susanne Weber
The Recognition of Intercultural Competences: From Individual Experience to Certification
213(12)
Genevieve Zarate
Afterword: What Does it Mean to be Intercultural 225(15)
Lothar Bredella
Index 240


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.