This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises.
The book draws on case studies from a range of educational contexts in the Global South which engage in creative arts methodologies to foreground decolonising approaches to intercultural communication in which researchers question their own power in the research process. The volume offers intercultural resources that can be used by researchers and community support groups to foster active intercultural communication, dialogue, participation, and responsibility among young people in these settings and those who may be marginalised from them. The collection also highlights the reflexive accounts of researchers working in a transnational, interdisciplinary, and multilingual research network and the subsequent opportunities and challenges of working in such networks.
Advocating for intercultural understanding among young people in higher education and a greater focus on social justice in intercultural communication research, this book will be of interest to students and researchers in applied linguistics, language education, intercultural education, and multilingualism.
Author(s): Prue Holmes, John Corbett
Series: Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 286
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Critical Intercultural Pedagogies in Contexts of Conflict and Crises
The Research Aims and Focus
The Emergent Project Network
Foregrounding Epistemic Justice: Research as Ethical and Political Activism
Freirean Dialogue and Educational Empowerment
New Materialism and Creative Arts
A Critical Intercultural Pedagogy of Hope for Languages and Intercultural Communication
Outline of the Chapters
Part I – The Case Studies
Examples of Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Language and Intercultural Communication in Contexts of Crises
Part II – Responses From the Global South
Decentring “Western” and “Eurocentric” Epistemologies and Pedagogies
Part III – Building Multilingual Intercultural Research Networks in Higher Education
Notes
References
Part I The Case Studies: Examples of Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Language and Intercultural Communication in …
2 Pre-Service Language Teachers as Multilingual Mediators
Introduction
Project Outline
Student Profile and Context
The Scholarship as a Third Space of Intercultural Tensions
Conceptual Pillars of the Study
Critical Intercultural Pedagogy (CIP) as a Transformative Pedagogy and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed (TdO)
Methodological Design
Analysing SPP Scholars’ Views and Self-Concepts: Pre-Workshop Initial Reflections
In-workshop Activities: Building On Critical Intercultural Pedagogy Through Drama Strategies
SPP Scholars’ Explorations With Drama
The Meaning and Reach of Critical Intercultural Pedagogy
Designing a Toolbox of Drama Activities
Two Examples: The Singer and the Mute and Two Siblings, Two Worlds
The Singer and the Mute
Two Siblings, Two Worlds
The Mirror Project
Final Reflections
Note
References
3 Connecting Palestine and Brazil: Towards a Critical and Creative Intercultural Pedagogy for Online Intercultural Exchange
Introduction
Marginalised Voices: Writing Flash Non-Fiction in Natal
Writing in Crisis: Fiction and Poetry From Gaza
Writing Across the Margins: Connecting Natal and Gaza
Seeing Eye to Eye: The Pleasures of Synchronicity
Conclusion: Lessons Learned
Notes
References
4 Hearing the Intercultural Voices: Shared Religio-Cultural Music and Dialogue Among Turkish Students and Syrian Refugee ...
Introduction
Research On Refugee Youth in Turkish Higher Education
The Shortcomings of Refugee Research: Missing Voices
Arts-based Approaches
The Research Approach: The Capacity to Aspire and the Politics of Recognition
Aims and Methodology
Workshop Participation: The Value of an Arts-Based, Well-Being-Focused Language Pedagogy
Identifying and Developing Aspirations for Higher Education
Enhancing Intercultural Understanding and Learning Through Arts-Based Methodologies
Critical Intercultural Pedagogies: Moving Beyond Deficit Models and Power Asymmetries
Conclusion
Note
References
5 To Be With the Other On Campus: Learning for Intercultural Understanding Through Participatory Photography
Introduction
Internationalisation, Migration, and the Need for Intercultural Learning
Critical Pedagogy and Intercultural Dialogue
Shaping the Participatory Photography Study
Participatory Photography Method
Confronting Otherness: The Problem of Deficit Discourses
Interaction With the Other: “Now You Have a Friend”
Turkish Students’ Changing Perceptions of the Other
Participatory Photography for Intercultural Learning
Conclusions
Note
References
6 Participation, Understanding, and Dialogue: Intercultural Learning Among Students in Higher Education and Refugee Youths
Introduction
Decentring and Decolonising Research Approaches Through an Intercultural Pedagogy and New Materialism
Critical Intercultural Pedagogy
New Materialism, Languaging, and Translanguaging
Methodology and Method: Creative Arts-Based Workshops as an “Entangled” Space for Building a Critical Intercultural Pedagogy
Making Connections Through Creative Arts (Workshop 1)
The Marshmallow Challenge
Intercultural Photography Exchange
Sharing a Song
Intercultural Learning Via the “go-Along” (Workshop 2)
The University as an Intercultural Learning Space (Workshop 3)
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part II Responses From the Global South: Decentering “Western” and “Eurocentric” Epistemologies and Pedagogies
7 Intercultural Responsibility in Conditions of Conflict and Crises: Glocademics in Action
Introduction
Glocademics
Glocal Languages
Intercultural Responsibility
Conclusions: Critical Intercultural Pedagogies
Notes
References
8 “I’m Afraid There Are No Easy Fixes”: Reflections On Teaching Intercultural Communication Through Embracing Vulnerability
From the Global South and Based in the Global North
Feeling Vulnerable in the World: Individual Vulnerability
Being in this Vulnerability Together: Collective Vulnerability
Learning Through Vulnerability: Disciplinary Vulnerability
Conclusion
References
9 Intersecting Languages, Cultures, and Identities in Decoloniality
Notes
References
10 Interculturality, Interculturalidad, and the Colonial Difference
Different Interculturalities
The Colonial Difference
Different Languages, Different Concepts, Different Understandings
Different Knowledges
Different State Models of Interculturalidad
Final Words
References
Part III Building Multilingual Intercultural Research Networks in Higher Education
11 The Establishment, Affordances, and Impact of an International Research Network: Building an Intercultural Pedagogy ...
Theoretical Considerations
The Proposal
Applicants
Project Objectives
Promised Outcomes
The Visits
Evaluating the Impact
Notes
References
12 An Ethic for Researching Multilingually in Transnational, Multilingual, Multidisciplinary Research Teams
Research Context and Aims
Languages in the Project, Languaging, Translanguaging
Method of Data Collection and Analysis
Languages in the Case Study Research Contexts
Language Practices Concerning Literature Reviews
Language Practices Concerning Fieldwork
Analysing and Representing Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Data
Writing Up the Case Studies
Addressing Linguistic Hegemonies
Lived Experiences Working in a Multilingual Research Group
Conclusions
Note
References
Afterword
References
Index
