1st Edition

Intercultural Preparation in Higher Education

By Ning Chen Copyright 2026
114 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

114 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Intercultural Preparation in Higher Education critically examines the complexities of intercultural preparation, challenging reductionist, competence-based approaches and emphasising critical reflection, linguistic sensitivity and intersectional perspectives, which offer transformative insight. This concise yet comprehensive book draws on the author's extensive experience in preparing... Read more

1. Intercultural preparation towards the ‘glocal’?  2. Positioning diversity, interculturality and preparation  3. Multifaceted landscapes of intercultural preparation  4. Moving forward with intercultural preparation for all in higher education

Biography

Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Visiting Researcher/Professor in Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Chen has published several articles and chapters about critical and reflexive interculturality and is the co-editor of The Concise Routledge Encyclopaedia of New Concepts for Interculturality (Routledge, 2025, with Fred Dervin and Hamza R’boul).