1st Edition

Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers Confronting Ideologies and Practices

Edited By Fred Dervin, Robyn Moloney, Ashley Simpson Copyright 2020
    296 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    296 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book critiques models of intercultural competence, whilst suggesting examples of specific alternative approaches that will successfully foster intercultural competence in teacher education.

    Bringing together diverse perspectives from teacher educators and student teachers, this volume discusses the need to move beyond essentialism, culturalism and assumptions about an us versus them perspective and recognises that multiple identities of an individual are negotiated in interaction with others. Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers is divided into four sections: critiquing intercultural competence in teacher education; exploring critical intercultural competences in teacher education; reflexivity and intercultural competence in teacher education; and indigeneity and intercultural competence in teacher education, providing a methodological approach through which to explore this critical framework further.

    This book is ideal for teacher educators or academics of education specialising in global education who are looking to explore alternative perspectives towards intercultural competence and wish to gain an insight into the ways it can be utilised in a more effective and productive manner.

    PART I. CRITIQUING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHER EDUCATION

    Chapter 1: Going forward with Intercultural Competence (IC) in teacher education and training: Beyond the ‘walls built by ghosts’?

    Fred Dervin, Robyn Moloney and Ashley Simpson

    Chapter 2: Looking for Intercultural Competences language teacher education in Australia and Finland

    Robyn Moloney, Maria Lobytsyna and Josephine Moate

    Chapter 3: ‘I with an[other]’, otherness and discourse: Reconstructing ‘democracy’ through intercultural education

    Ashley Simpson

    Chapter 4: Creating and combining models of intercultural competence for teacher education/training: On the need to rethink IC frequently

    Fred Dervin

    PART II. EXPLORING CRITICAL INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES IN TEACHER EDUCATION

    Chapter 5: From cultural visits to intercultural learning: Experiences of North–South–South collaboration

    Hanna Posti-Ahokas, Hille Janhonen-Abruquah and Christine Adu-Yeboah

    Chapter 6: Constructing critical Intercultural Competence and appreciation of diversity: the case of exchange student teachers in Finland

    Martina Paatela-Nieminen

    Chapter 7: Intercultural ethics in education

    Tuija Itkonen

    Chapter 8: Building Cultural Competence in initial teacher education through international service-learning

    Sean Kearney and Julie Maakrrun

    PART III. REFLEXIVITY AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHER EDUCATION

    Chapter 9: Two teacher educators 're-thinking' practice: intercultural compentences in teacher education pedagogy

    Robyn Maloney and Tuija Turunen

    Chapter 10: Leading international teaching experiences: Negotiating tensions, contradictions and discontinuities

    Jae Major, Jennifer Munday and Matthew Winslade

    Chapter 11: International student teachers as intercultural experts?

    Kaisa Hahl and Pia-Maria Niemi

    Chapter 12: Understanding diversity through collaboration and dialogue: teacher education students learning from their peers

    Neil Harrison

    PART IV. INDIGENEITY AND INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHER EDUCATION

    Chapter 13: Ways of getting to know: International mobility and Indigenous education

    John Buchanan and Meeri Hellsten

    Chapter 14: Fostering Indigenous intercultural ability during and beyond initial teacher education

    Susan Page, Leanne Holt and Katrina Thorpe

    Chapter 15: Exploring the limits of transformative potential: Teacher intercultural competences in an Indigenous language education project

    Mercurius Goldstein

    Chapter 16: Afterword

    Lesley Harbon

    Biography

    Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

    Robyn Moloney is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Australia, and a consultant in teacher development.

    Ashley Simpson is Assistant Professor at the School of Foreign Studies, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.