Full Description
This unique book starts from the premise that students, scholars, and educators should be given access to a form of global education that is genuinely global. Using the notion of interculturality as change and exchange as a basis, the authors examine fifty discourse instruments (e.g. idioms, neologisms, slogans) related to what they call 'Chinese stories of interculturality'. China, like other countries, has a rich and complex history of intercultural encounters and her engagement with the notion today, which shares similarities and differences with glocal discourses of interculturality, deserves to be unpacked and familiarized with. By so doing, digging into the intricacies of the Chinese and English languages, the reader is empowered to unthink, rethink and especially reflect on their own take on the important notion of interculturality.
Contents
Introduction. Why 'Chinese' stories of interculturality?.- Chapter 1. Approaching interculturality: Culture and civilization as discursive and reflexive tools.- Chapter 2. Exploring and explaining experiences of interculturality.- Chapter 3. 'Doing' interculturality together.- Chapter 4. Making interculturality work together, as group/community members.- Chapter 5. Learning to 'do' interculturality.- Chapter 6. Pondering over language and interculturality.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.
