Alred / Byram / Fleming Intercultural Experience and Education

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-85359-608-7
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alred, Geof

Byram, Michael

Fleming, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Fleming, Mike
Mike Fleming is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK. He has published widely on intercultural education and arts education.

Byram, Michael
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and  German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the PhD is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.

Alred, Geof
The editors are all members of the School of Education, Durham University, interested in interdisciplinary approaches to intercultural experience. Geof Alred is counsellor and counsellor trainer. His research interests include language in therapy, mentoring and intercultural experience, in particular student residence abroad.

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.