From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship

by Byram, Michael; Golubeva, Irina; Hui, Han

• ISBN13: 9781783096558
• ISBN10: 1783096551
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-11-15
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

The contributors to this volume have collaborated to present their work on introducing competences in intercultural communication and citizenship into foreign language education. The book examines how learners and teachers think about citizenship and interculturality, and shows how teachers and researchers from primary to university education can work together across continents to develop new curricula and pedagogy. This involves the creation of a new theory of intercultural citizenship and a procedure for implementation. The book is written by teacher researchers who aim to help other teachers, and concludes with reflections on the lessons they have learnt which will help others to implement these ideas in their own practice. The book is essential reading for foreign language educators and researchers, students in pre-service teacher training and teachers in in-service training.

Author Biography

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK and Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg.

Irina Golubeva is Head of the International Mobility Office at the University of Pannonia, Hungary.

Han Hui is Professor at the School of Foreign Languages at Zhejiang A&F University, China.

Manuela Wagner is Associate Professor of Foreign Language Education and Director of the German Language and Culture Program at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Martyn Barrett
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Section 1. The Baseline: Learners' and Teachers' Perceptions of Intercultural Citizenship
1. Irina Golubeva, Mary Yakimowski and Manuela Wagner: Comparing Students' Perceptions of Language Learning and Global Citizenship in Hungary and the United States
2. Han Hui, Song Li, Jing Hongtao and Zhao Yuqin: Exploring Perceptions of Intercultural Citizenship among English Learners in Chinese Universities
3. Ulla Lundgren: Intercultural encounters in Teacher Education: Collaboration Towards Intercultural Citizenship Section 2. Teachers Cooperating
4. Etsuko Yamada and Jessie Hsieh: Beyond Language Barriers: Approaches to Developing Citizenship for Lower Level Language Classes
5. Stephanie Ann Houghton and Mei Lan Huang: Incorporating Environmental Action into Intercultural Dialogue: Personal and Environmental Transformation and the Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence
Section 3. Learners Cooperating
6. Melina Porto, Petra Daryai-Hansen, María Emilia Arcuri and Kira Schifler: Green Kidz: Young Learners Engage in Intercultural Environmental Citizenship in English Language Classroom In Argentina and Denmark.
7. Catherine Peck and Manuela Wagner: Understanding Intercultural Citizenship in Korea and the USA
8. Melina Porto: Mural Art and Graffiti: Developing Intercultural Citizenship in Higher Education Classes in English as a Foreign Language in Argentina and Italy
9. Melina Porto and Leticia Yulita: Language and Intercultural Citizenship Education for a Culture of Peace. The Malvinas/Falklands Project
10. Leticia Yulita and Melina Porto: Human Rights Education in Language Teaching Reflections: Learning From the Challenges and Seeking Ways Forward