1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Intercultural Teacher Education

Edited By Fred Dervin, Danièle Moore Copyright 2027
408 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This exciting companion volume explores how intercultural perspectives can inform and transform teacher education and professional development. The book addresses the practical challenges and opportunities that educators face when responding to diversity in all its forms within learning environments. Engaging with the flexible notion of interculturality, it encourages critical and transparent... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction: Interculturality and teacher preparation

Fred Dervin and Danièle Moore

Section I: Contextualising intercultural teacher education

Chapter 2. Intercultural teacher education and training for the diversity of Australian schooling

Lesley Harbon and Robyn Moloney

Chapter 3. Intercultural education as an answer to racism and discrimination? An analysis of Finnish teacher education curricula

Jaana Pesonen and Heidi Layne

Chapter 4. Sociohistorically localizing interculturality: Plurilingual engagement with ‘foreign culture’ in language teacher education in Japan

Daniel Roy Pearce and Mayo Oyama

Chapter 5. Making sense of and operationalising local knowledge in Chinese Minzu teacher education

Xinyang Liu

Chapter 6. Turkish in the corridor, French in the classroom. Critical multilingual awareness within intercultural teacher education

Andrea S. Young

Section II: Pedagogical approaches and teacher development

Chapter 7. Navigating dichotomies in teacher education: Interculturality as a zone of reflection for student teachers

Vander Tavares

Chapter 8. Integrating and assessing transformative learning in intercultural teacher education

Roxanna Senyshyn

Chapter 9. Interculturality in practice: Creating spaces for risk-taking in (and beyond) the classroom

Sarah E. Dietrich

Chapter 10. Fostering reflexivity on diversity in teacher education through classroom observation dialogues

Jasmin Peskoller

Chapter 11. Interculturality and simplexity in an Australia-Sweden early childhood teacher student exchange

Andreas Jacobsson, Valerie Margrain and Mary-Rose McLaren

Section III: Foundational theories and critical frameworks

Chapter 12. A social psychology approach to intercultural teacher education: Identifying core beliefs and orientations

Inkeri Rissanen and Meri Häärä

Chapter 13. Beyond the essentialist/non-essentialist divide: Revisiting the ethical and methodological terrain in intercultural language teacher education research

Yvette Yitong Wang and Troy McConachy

Chapter 14. Intercultural teacher education in/about the Global South(s)

Hamza R’boul and El Mehdi Bellaarabi

Chapter 15. Making space for indigenous voices in French-speaking schools: Decolonizing teachers’ education in the Western Canadian context

Eva Lemaire

Chapter 16. Intercultural music teacher education as political education

Heidi Westerlund and Danielle Shannon Treacy

Chapter 17. Integrating and combining translanguaging and interculturality in/for teacher education

Beñat Etxeberria Illarregi and Fred Dervin

Section IV: Innovative methods, resources and assessment

Chapter 18. Foreign language textbooks as sites of intercultural engagement: Critical perspectives from teacher education

Mélodine Sommier and Anssi Roiha

Chapter 19. Assessing Intercultural Competence (IC) in the Italian school system: Challenges and possibilities for teacher education

Marta Milani, Elena Guerra and Nicoletta Apolito

Chapter 20. Developing language teachers’ intercultural competence: A critical analysis of the inclusion of Linguistic Landscapes in teacher education programs

Mónica Lourenço and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Chapter 21. Dismantling the majority gaze: Student teachers’ intercultural experiences with museum collaborations in teacher education

Thor-André Skrefsrud

Chapter 22. AI and interculturality within/for teacher education

Ning Chen and Fred Dervin

Chapter 23. A critical intercultural vision for teacher education

Danièle Moore and Fred Dervin

Biography

Fred Dervin is a world-renowned interculturalist who has made a strong impact on Intercultural Communication Education and Research over the past 25 years. A Full Professor and PhD supervisor at the University of Helsinki (Finland), Dervin proposes original and refreshing approaches to understanding the politics of global interactions by challenging conventional paradigms and blending interdisciplinary insights.

Danièle Moore is a Distinguished Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University (Canada), located on the unceded territories xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, səlil̓wətaɬ and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm Nations of the Coast Salish peoples and Research Director at Sorbonne University (France). Her work examines plurilingualism, endangered languages, diasporas, language policy and plurilingual education, with particular attention to teacher education.