Feng / Byram / Fleming Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84769-164-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

This book demonstrates the complementarity of educational and training approaches to developing intercultural competence as represented by those who work in commercial training and those who work in further and higher education. It does so by presenting chapters of analysis and chapters describing courses in the two sectors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feng, Anwei

Byram, Michael

Fleming, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Adrian Holliday Foreword - Anne Davidson-Lund Introduction – Education and Training: Becoming Interculturally Competent - Mike Fleming Part 1 – Investigations of intercultural encounters and learning Chapter 1 – Cultures of organisations meet ethno-linguistic cultures: narratives in job interviews - Celia Roberts Chapter 2 – Exporting the multiple market experience and the SME intercultural paradigm - Terry Mughan Chapter 3 – Evolving intercultural identity during living and studying abroad: Five Mexican women graduate students - Phyllis Ryan Chapter 4 – Becoming interculturally competent in a third space - Anwei Feng Part 2 – Reflections on teaching and learning programmes Chapter 5 – A Critical Perspective on Teaching Intercultural Competence in a Management Department - Gavin Jack Chapter 6 – Applying the principles: Instruments for intercultural business training - Barry Tomalin Chapter 7 – Intercultural teacher: A case study of a course - Ulla Lundgren Chapter 8 – Using “Human Global Positioning System” as a Navigation Tool to the Hidden Dimension of Culture - Claudia Finkbeiner Chapter 9 – Professional training: creating intercultural space in the multi-ethnic workplaces - Catharine Arakelian Chapter 10 – The pragmatics of intercultural competence in Education and Training: A cross-national experiment on ‘Diversity Management’ - M. Guilherme, Glaser, E. and Mendez-Garcia, M.C. Afterword – Education, Training and Becoming Critical - Mike Byram

Über Autor(innen)

Feng Anwei:
Dr Anwei Feng has teaching and research experience in tertiary institutions in many countries and regions including China, Hong Kong, Singapore as well as the UK. He is currently Reader in Education and directs Graduate Programmes in the School of Education at Bangor University, UK. His main research interests are in the areas of bi/trilingualism and bi/trilingual education and intercultural studies in education. His recent publications include Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training (2009, with M. Byram and M. Fleming) and Bilingual Education in China: Practices, Policies and Concepts (2007). He also regularly publishes articles in these areas in peer-reviewed journals.Byram Michael:
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK and Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg.Fleming Mike:
Mike Fleming is Professor of Education at Durham University with research interests in drama and arts education as well as intercultural education.Anwei Feng is Reader in education at University of Wales, Bangor and has research interests in intercultural studies and bilingualism in education. Mike Byram is Professor Emeritus in Education at the University of Durham with research interest in policy and practice in intercultural education and language teaching. Mike Fleming is Professor of Education at Durham University with research interests in drama and arts education as well as intercultural education.