1st Edition
Interculturality in Higher Education Putting Critical Approaches into Practice
Introduction
Mélodine Sommier, Anssi Roiha & Malgorzata Lahti
Chapter 1: Can You Imagine? An Imaginary of Finland’s Higher Education as Anti-Oppressive, Intersectional Practice
Johanna Ennser-Kananen & Taina Saarinen
Chapter 2: Developing Critical Intercultural Competence through Understanding the Location, Product and Processes of Dialogue
Nick Pilcher & Vivien Xiaowei Zhou
Chapter 3: Towards Critical Intercultural Training for Public Service Interpreters
Kristina Gustafsson, Eva Norström & Linnéa Åberg
Chapter 4: Student Experiences of Critical Multilingual and Intercultural Communication Competence Assessment in Higher Education
Lotta Kokkonen & Teija Natri
Chapter 5: Engaging Artistic Practices in the Seminar Room: Collaging as Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy
Elizabeth Start
Chapter 6: Finnish Boozing Is Like Skiing through the Snow in Winter Time: Critical Analysis of Blogging about Finnishness during a National Cinema Course
Anu Muhonen
Chapter 7: Email in International Business Settings: Classroom Activities for Students to Practise and Critically Reflect on their Communicative Practices
Annelise Ly
Chapter 8: Playing Critically: Using Digital Intercultural Simulation Games in Higher Education
Marko Siitonen
Biography
Mélodine Sommier is an academy research fellow (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). Her work concentrates on processes of in- and exclusion at the discursive and interactional levels, and in urban settings through her work on racial landscapes.
Anssi Roiha works as a university lecturer in foreign language didactics (University of Turku, Finland). His main research interests are foreign language teaching and learning, bilingual education, differentiation and intercultural education.
Malgorzata Lahti is Senior Lecturer in Communication (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). She has co-run an international master’s programme in intercultural communication and has extensive experience teaching in the area. Her research interests include interculturality and multilingualism in interactions in organisational and academic contexts.
