Full Description
This edited volume gathers insights into the production of knowledge about interculturality in education and research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The MENA region is seen in this book as a space with unique circumstances, conditions and complexities that need to be thoroughly explored and further unpacked. The book defines intercultural communication education and research broadly, but focuses on how teaching and researching interculturality is understood and practiced in MENA formal education classrooms and in various training situations such as business, politics, media and communication. This edited volume aims to (a) navigate representations of intercultural communication in education and research, starting from the premise that interculturality is not only a theory of analysis but also an activism for social and epistemic justice, (b) investigate specific phenomena, challenges and issues in education and research, including concepts/notions such as acculturation and intercultural understanding/empathy, and (c) explore subfields of knowledge such as sense-making and intercultural pragmatics, and specific contexts of interculturality such as immigrants, exchange programs and student mobilities.
This book will be valuable read for students, educators, scholars and policymakers interested in intercultural communication and education in the region, as well as language and sociology more broadly.
Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Gender and Feminism in Intercultural Communication Education 2. Empowering Voices and Building Bridges: The Intersection of Feminist Critical Pedagogy and Intercultural Communication in Moroccan Higher Education 3. Empowering Voices: Nurturing Gender Equity through Intercultural Communication Education in the Arab World Part 2: Critical Perspectives on Intercultural Communication 4. "We are Algerians...We are Muslims!": EFL Educators' Perceptions of Interculturality in the Algerian Context 5. (Re)locating Türkiye's Intercultural Stance through Juxtaposing Non-Western and Western Perspectives 6. Reconceptualizing Intercultural Communication Research for the MENA: A Rereading of the Social Construction of Reality 7. Promoting Translanguaging in the ESL Classroom: A Closer Look into Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates Part 3: Diversity and Diaspora in Interculturality 8. The Role of Host Environment in the Development of Host Communication Competence among Tunisian Study Abroad Students 9. Analysis of Culturally Responsive Differentiated Instruction Practices at the Diaspora ESL/EFL Context: The Inner World of the Immigrant Child by Cristina Igoa (1995) as a Case study 10. Exploring Teachers' Attitudes toward Refugee Students in High Schools in Türkiye 11. Arabic Medium Education Policy and Intercultural Learning
