1st Edition
Interculturality Online Ideological Constructions and Considerations for Higher Education
Chapter 1 Introduction: Online Interculturality and the Ideological in Education
Fred Dervin and Jun Peng
Part I – Identifying ideologies of online interculturality
Chapter 2 An Ethic of Discomfort and Intercultural Otherness: Seeking Unstable Ground in the Virtual Classroom
Samara Madrid Akpovo, Sonja Arndt, Marek Tesar, Marta Cabral, Alex Tucker, Feifei Huang and Mandeep Singh Brar
Chapter 3 Unlocking Transcultural Understanding with Key Indigenous Concepts “Liberated” by English as a Lingua Franca: A Decade of Virtual Intercultural Exchanges
David Dalsky, Jueyun Su, Cahya Widiyanto, Trisna Aryanata, Albertus Harimurti, Ruprecht Mattig and Fan Yang
Chapter 4 From Cultures-of-Use to Critical Cultures-of-Use in Virtual Exchange
Marco Cappellini
Part II – Dealing with ideologies of online interculturality
Chapter 5 Focusing on Interpersonal Relationships and Building Trust Within Intercultural Virtual Exchanges in Higher Education
Lotta Kokkonen and Romée Jager
Chapter 6 Questioning in Online Intercultural Exchanges: A Critical Reflection
Josep M. Cots and Montserrat Mir
Part III – Educators/researchers reflecting on and revising ideologies of online interculturality
Chapter 7 Missed Opportunities and Lessons Learned: A Collaboration with Future Teachers in the U.S.A. and Ukraine
Sarah E. Dietrich
Chapter 8 Teacher Educators Following the Steps of Transnational Students: Virtual Exchanges in Teacher Education Programs between Mexico and the US
Theresa Catalano, Edmund T. Hamann and Víctor Zúñiga
Chapter 9 Conclusion: Working with the Electric Rhymes of Interculturality in Education
Fred Dervin
Biography
Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. He specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages (over 200 articles and 80 books). His latest books with Routledge include Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023) and The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality (2024). Over a career of 25 years, he has made substantial contributions to scholarship on interculturality in both communication and education around the world.
Jun Peng is a Ph.D. researcher in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Her research focuses on interculturality in education, online intercultural interactions and foreign language education. She has conducted some research on virtual exchange projects between universities in Africa, Asia and Europe. She has taught Chinese and English at universities in China and Finland.
Virginie Trémion is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Pedagogy (IFP) at Catholic University, Lille, France. Her fields of interest include virtual exchange, intercultural education and teacher education.
