1st Edition
Making Sense of the Intercultural Finding DeCentred Threads
Chapter 1: Distant lands and the everyday
Kati in Exia
Main events, storyline and concepts
Matt and the woman on the train
The ‘getting on with life’ grand narrative
Getting to the deCentred: The Moor’s account
What it takes to listen to the deCentred
Chapter 2: DeCentred threads resist the expected
The problem with ‘integration’
Working with children as expert agents of culture and identity
The intertwined nature of identity construction
A critical cosmopolitan, deCentred discourse of culture
Searching for hidden spaces
Chapter 3: Centred threads become blocks
Choosing to find threads
Dangerous threads: Kati and Eli
Talking to Wissaal about clothes: threads of ambivalence
Behind the scenes sense-making of threads or not threads
Kati, Eli and Matt visit ‘the foreign’: blocks and threads at work
Building interculturality
Chapter 4: Who are we as researchers?
Excavating our own researcher agendas
In this together
Chapter 5: Getting on with deCentred life
Meeting undergraduate students
Another unexpected deCentred thread
Connecting back to other events
Conclusions
Biography
Dr Adrian Holliday is Professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Dr Sara Amadasi is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Modena & Reggio Emilia.
