Houghton Intercultural Dialogue in Practice

Managing Value Judgment through Foreign Language Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84769-727-1
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 22, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

The term intercultural dialogue has become a buzzword at policy level, but there is a pressing need to synchronise the terminology of policymakers with that of academics. An overarching aim of this book is to explore the wide-ranging terminology relevant to intercultural dialogue in order to promote clearer consideration of the underlying issues. More specifically, this book reports the findings of a research project conducted in Japan that brought teaching practice to bear upon some of the main conflicting theoretical perspectives on how value judgment should be managed in foreign language education. At the heart of this issue lies the management of prejudice, which is a key dynamic in intercultural dialogue that brings many other factors into play.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Houghton, Stephanie Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

PART 1 EXPLORING THE ROOTS OF VALUE JUDGMENT

Chapter 1 Information Processing, Socialisation and the Self

Chapter 2 Ethnocentrism and Ethnorelativism

Chapter 3 Theoretical and Political Perspectives Upon Value Judgment

PART 2 MANAGING VALUE JUDGMENT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

Chapter 4 Overview of the Study

Chapter 5 The Intercultural Dialogue Model

Chapter 6 Critically Analysing Self and Other

Chapter 7 Critically Evaluating Self and Other

Chapter 8 Shifting the Interface: From Self and Other to Self and Society

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Houghton, Stephanie Ann
Stephanie Ann Houghton is an Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication at Saga University, Japan. She has published numerous articles and books on intercultural communication. She is a co-editor of the book series Intercultural Communication and Language Education (Springer), and the AILA ReN Coordinator for a research network focusing on native-speakerism.

Stephanie Houghton is an Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication in the Faculty of Culture and Education at Saga University in Japan. Her research activities focus on intergroup relations, self and identity in foreign language education and the development of intercultural communicative competence.