From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship

Edited by Prof. Michael Byram, Irina Golubeva, Han Hui, Manuela Wagner

Publication date:

01 November 2016

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783096558

The contributors to this volume have collaborated to present their work on introducing competences in intercultural communication and citizenship into foreign language education. The book examines how learners and teachers think about citizenship and interculturality, and shows how teachers and researchers from primary to university education can work together across continents to develop new curricula and pedagogy. This involves the creation of a new theory of intercultural citizenship and a procedure for implementation. The book is written by teacher researchers who aim to help other teachers, and concludes with reflections on the lessons they have learnt which will help others to implement these ideas in their own practice. The book is essential reading for foreign language educators and researchers, students in pre-service teacher training and teachers in in-service training.

Foreword by Martyn Barrett

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Section 1. The Baseline: Learners’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Intercultural Citizenship

1. Irina Golubeva, Mary Yakimowski and Manuela Wagner: Comparing Students’ Perceptions of Language Learning and Global Citizenship in Hungary and the United States

2. Han Hui, Song Li, Jing Hongtao and Zhao Yuqin: Exploring Perceptions of Intercultural Citizenship among English Learners in Chinese Universities

3. Ulla Lundgren: Intercultural encounters in Teacher Education: Collaboration Towards Intercultural Citizenship

Section 2. Teachers Cooperating

4. Etsuko Yamada and Jessie Hsieh: Beyond Language Barriers: Approaches to Developing Citizenship for Lower Level Language Classes

5. Stephanie Ann Houghton and Mei Lan Huang: Incorporating Environmental Action into Intercultural Dialogue: Personal and Environmental Transformation and the Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence

Section 3. Learners Cooperating

6. Melina Porto, Petra Daryai-Hansen, María Emilia Arcuri and Kira Schifler: Green Kidz: Young Learners Engage in Intercultural Environmental Citizenship in English Language Classroom In Argentina and Denmark.

7. Catherine Peck and Manuela Wagner: Understanding Intercultural Citizenship in Korea and the USA

8. Melina Porto: Mural Art and Graffiti: Developing Intercultural Citizenship in Higher Education Classes in English as a Foreign Language in Argentina and Italy

9. Melina Porto and Leticia Yulita: Language and Intercultural Citizenship Education for a Culture of Peace. The Malvinas/Falklands Project

10. Leticia Yulita and Melina Porto: Human Rights Education in Language Teaching

Reflections: Learning From the Challenges and Seeking Ways Forward

This book offers educators an approach to developing ‘intercultural citizenship’ and illustrates ways in which teachers and learners can cooperate to develop an openness and willingness to learn about others and to resolve conflicts peacefully. The world today desperately needs more citizens competent to do just this.