Intercultural Experience and Education

Edited by Dr. Geof Alred, Prof. Michael Byram, Mike Fleming

Publication date:

08 November 2002

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781853596070

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.

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

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.