The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality in Communication and Education

1. Introduction

Fred Dervin

PART 1 – INTERROGATING AND PROBLEMATIZING CRITICAL AND INTERCULTURALITY

2. What constitutes a critical intercultural communication perspective? The significance of negation and specification

Rona Tamiko Halualani

3. Critical interculturality in a global perspective: A matter of geopolitical position, sociocultural nexus, and existential relevance

Karen Risager

4. Epistemological dilemmas in teaching critical interculturality: Ideologies and the ‘pseudo-critical’

Hamza R’boul

5. What’s in a concept? An exploration of ‘interculturality’

Deborah Charlotte Darling and Haiqin Liu

PART II – CRITICAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON INTERCULTURALITY 

6. Critical pedagogy, deconstruction and the promises of interculturality

Maria Dasli

7. Echoes of critical interculturality: World cinema, polycentric perspectives, and polyvocality

Andreas Jacobsson

8. Resisting neoliberal influences through a dynamic approach to intercultural education

Oona Piipponen

9. Critical interculturality in tourism communication

Shuang Gao and Bal Krishna Sharma

10. Stay critiCUL: The imperative for educators to take a critical and reflexive approach to culture, diversity, and interculturality in their classroom practice

Jasmin Peskoller amd Eva Maria Hirzinger-Unterrainer

PART III – LANGUAGE AND CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY – CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY IN LANGUAGE

11. Language, meaning potential and bicritical interculturality in healthcare

Fiona O’Neill, Kerrilee Lockyer, and Jonathan Crichton

12. Multilingual practices in higher education for enhancing critical interculturality

Lotta Kokkonen and Teija Natri, University of Jyväskylä

13. The role of culture and interculturality in language teacher education: Insights into the educational context of Austria

Eva Maria Hirzinger-Unterrainer and Jasmin Peskoller, University of Innsbruck

14. Critical interculturality in an English textbook for higher education in China

Wang Qiang

15. Critical interculturality in English language education: Gaslighting, myths and learning from literature

Janice Bland

16. Fostering critical interculturality in foreign language education

Elinor Parks

17. Intercultural learning as a process in Chinese language education

Haiqin Liu and Deborah Charlotte Darling

PART IV – RESEARCHING INTERCULTURALITY CRITICALLY

18. Post qualitative inquiry into critical interculturality

Dominic Busch

19. Getting critical about critical interculturality: Researching international schools critically and empathetically

Adam Poole

20. Critical reflexivity through autoethnography: Interculturality and in-between experiences

Ahmet Atay

21. Walking our landscape as interculturality. A visual essay in resonances

Danièle Moore

22. Queering as an inspiration for (further) critical interculturality

Fred Dervin

PART V – TEACHING CRITICAL INTERCULTURALITY 

23. Challenging the dichotomy of (anti)-essentialism: A multi-perspective critical approach to teaching interculturality

Alexander Frame and David Bousquet

24. When interculturality and business meet: A critical turn in Portuguese higher education

Clara Sarmento

25. (Re)Thinking critical intercultural communication pedagogy: Teaching and learning in response to shifting cultural contexts

Yea-Wen Chen and Brandi Lawless

26. Critical interculturality in the Australian school classroom

Robyn Moloney

27. Cultivating criticality: Notions of “critical” applied to teaching and learning about intercultural communication in a Higher Education setting

Lotta Kokkonen, Romée Jager, Alexander Frame and Mitra Raappana

28. Teaching critical interculturality to social work students

Phyllis Ngai

29. Re-envisioning “the core intercultural communication course” as a critical intercultural communication course

Rona Tamiko Halualani

PART VI – CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES BEYOND THE ‘WEST’?

30. Whiteness in scholarship on interculturality from the global north/s

Mélodine Sommier

31. Reframing discourses of healthcare “helping” in volunteer tourism: Critical interculturality, liberation theology, and Latin America

Phiona Stanley

32. Education for sustainable interculturality

Heidi Layne

33. Post-secularity: Religion and spirituality for critical intercultural education

Chantal Crozet

34. Perceptions and constructions of ideologies of interculturality

Huiyu Tan, SUFE and Fred Dervin

35. Provisional denouement

Fred Dervin

Biography

Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Dervin specialises in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He is widely published in different languages (over 200 articles and 80 books). Recent books published with Routledge include Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023), The Paradoxes of Interculturality: A Toolbox of Out-of-the-box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education (2022), and Flexing Interculturality (with Hamza R’boul; 2023). Over a career of 25 years, Dervin has made substantial contributions to scholarship on interculturality in both communication and education.