Intercultural Experience and Education

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Geof Alred, Michael Byram
Multilingual Matters, 2003 - Education - 242 pages
This edited volume explores the educational significance of intercultural experience. It offers a broader conception of interculturality than commonly found in the area of foreign language teaching. Contributors represent a diverse range of academic and professional interests. The aim of the book is to encourage dialogue and interchange across this range, and beyond, to stimulate thinking about the educational value of intercultural experience.
 

Contents

A Therapeutic Perspective
14
For a Flexible Model of Intercultural Understanding
31
On Being Bicultural and Intercultural
50
Learning to be Intercultural
67
Intercultural Experience and Drama
87
Student Travellers Abroad
101
Ways of Learning During
114
Searching for the Intercultural Person
131
A Discussion of the Dynamics of
155
An Intercultural Approach
179
A Framework for Teaching and Learning Intercultural
196
From Individual
213
Index
240
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The editors are all members of the School of Education, University of Durham, interested in interdisciplinary approaches to intercultural experience. Geof Alred is a counsellor and counsellor trainer. His research interests include language in therapy, mentoring, and intercultural experience, in particular student residence abroad..... Mike Fleming is Director of Initial Teacher Training. His research interests include the teaching of English and drama and in particular the use of drama as a form of intercultural education. Mike Byram studied languages and literature before becoming interested in the intercultural dimension of language education and ultimately in educational experience beyond the classroom.

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