Action Scenarios in Intercultural Pedagogy and Education Perspectives from Northern European Multicultural Societies

Preface I: The discomfort of identity thinking: Towards a politics of love?

Susanne Bregnbæk (Lund University, Sweden)

Preface II: ‘Who made the stars?’ One answer we should acknowledge within the field of cultural education is, ‘We don’t know!’

Nikolaj Elf (University of Southern Denmark)

Introduction: Action scenarios in intercultural education

Vibeke Christensen, Bjørn Ribers & Søren Sindberg Jensen (University of Southern Denmark)

Part I: Case work in intercultural education

Chapter 1

What is the case and what ought to be done: Theorising action scenarios in intercultural education

Bjørn Ribers, Vibeke Christensen & Søren Sindberg Jensen (University of Southern Denmark)

Chapter 2

Casework, action scenarios and intercultural pedagogical problems

Peter Hobel (University of Southern Denmark)

Chapter 3

Navigating figured worlds: Intercultural (in)competence and student narratives in Danish education

Anke Piekut (University of Southern Denmark)

Chapter 4

From marginalisation to empowerment: Exploring transformative multicultural pedagogy in urban youth settings

Vibe Larsen & Üzeyir Tireli (University College Copenhagen)

Part II: Intercultural studies and action scenarios

Chapter 5

Reflections on gender and equality among migrants in Denmark in a transnational cultural context

Andrea Dietz Føge Jensen, Amalie Gaarde Grønbæk, Sara Kær Kaspersen, Julie Kismer Sørensen, Søren Sindberg Jensen & Vibe Larsen (University of Southern Denmark and University College Copenhagen)

Chapter 6

Honour-related social control of ethnic minority women’s partner choice

Bjørn Ribers, Mariam El-Chami, Tanveer Malene Kaur & Nadia Mansour (University of Southern Denmark and University College South Denmark)

Chapter 7

Ethnic minority boys and their teachers: Micro-processes in cultural encounters in Danish schools

Berfin Colak Oguz, Mustafa Boran Oguz, Bjørn Ribers & Niels Warring (University of Southern Denmark and Roskilde University)

Chapter 8

Cancel culture in academia: Intercultural issues and prospects

Aske Valentin Maltesen Pedersen, Lise Stenhøj Mortensen, Bjørn Ribers & Vibeke Christensen (University of Southern Denmark and Roskilde University)

Part III: Intercultural pedagogy and research in multicultural societies

Chapter 9

Nation building in the Greenlandic classroom

Steen Beck (Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland)

Chapter 10

Designing for intercultural pedagogy: Iteration and collaboration as analytical motors

Tina Høegh & Martin Østergaard (University of Southern Denmark)

Chapter 11

Engaging the symbolic self in intercultural language education: A multilingual poetic intervention

Juljana Gjata Hjorth Jacobsen & Nadia Mansour (VIA University College and University College South Denmark)

Chapter 12

‘I no longer say you; I say we’: Education for democracy – A Norwegian case study in language training classes for immigrants and refugees

Aslaug Kristiansen (University of Agder, Norway) 

Postscript

From reading to reviewing: Student participation and epistemic empowerment in higher education

Lisa Rosen (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)

Biography

Bjørn Ribers is Associate Professor in Professional Ethics and Educational Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark and Visiting Research Fellow at Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England.

Vibeke Christensen is Associate Professor in Education and Subject Specific Pedagogy at the University of Southern Denmark.

Søren Sindberg Jensen is Associate Professor in Educational Science at the University of Southern Denmark.