Böcker i Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education-serien

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.

This book examines citizenship education from the perspective of interculturality in order to extend its meaning and significance within and beyond the nation state, and in education in the nation state. There are chapters which deal with theory and concepts and others which present country and international case studies.

This book reviews the hidden cultural challenges of adapting to life abroad. Combining intercultural theory with the lived experiences of sojourners, it reviews key concepts, introduces a cultural learning model, explains hidden barriers to intercultural sensitivity, and brings clarity to debates about globalization and cultural difference.

This book focuses on narrowing the gap between the often conflicting theoretical and practical imperatives faced by language teachers in an internationalised higher education context. It provides conceptual discussions of emerging critical intercultural language pedagogies as well as empirical accounts and case studies from the frontline.