Educational Approaches to Internationalization through Intercultural Dialogue

Ulla Lundgren is a former Assistant Professor of Jönköping University, Sweden and an ongoing member of its education research group.Paloma Castro is Vice-Chancellor for Internationalization at the University of Valladolid, Spain.Jane Woodin is Director of the Intercultural Communication MA Programmes at the University of Sheffield, UK.

By taking a resolutely educational approach, this book links internationalization to what should be one of its main dimensions but is too often neglected: intercultural dialogue. Through a combination of theoretical chapters and case studies from a broad range of countries, the book demonstrates multiperspectivity, a concept developed through the Council of Europe’s history education program. It recognizes that we may learn from the experience of others, without falling into relativity or accepting that "anything goes". Internationalization should encourage multiperspectivity, and this book makes the case convincingly.Sjur Bergan, Head of the Council of Europe’s Education Department The chapters in this book demonstrate that intercultural dialogue stands at the heart of the effort to internationalize higher education.Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin, USAThe book is a valuable contribution to the field of internationalization and higher education and the role of intercultural dialogue in this endeavour. Jonas Stier, Professor of Intercultural Studies, Dalarna University, Sweden

• About the Editors; About the Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword to the series Internationalization in Higher Education; Introduction: New challenges in the internationalisation of Higher Education; PART I Reflections on concepts; 1. Intercultural Dialogue: An Educational Approach; 2. An Internationalist Perspective on Internationalisation; 3. The Intersection of Internationalisation: Constructing a Knowledge Framework Grounded in Intercultural Dialogue; PART II Reflections on policy and curriculum; 4. Internationalisation as Individual Development. A National Strategy through an Intercultural Dialogue lens; 5. Strategic approaches to internationalisation and intercultural dialogue - policy and practices in the Republic of Ireland; 6. Critical intercultural dialogue opening new paths to internationalization in HE: repositioning local languages and cultures in foreign language policies; 7. Intercultural dialogue in an Aotearoa New Zealand university: Strategy and curriculum; 8. Internationalising the Curriculum: Education Lecturers’ Understandings and Experiences at a UK University; 9. The role of informal curricula in furthering intercultural dialogue: Internationalisation in a Chinese university; 10. Higher Education Internationalisation Processes in the USA: Successes and Lessons Learned in Relation to Intercultural Dialogue; PART III Reflections on practice; 11. Intercultural dialogue in a critical and multilingual perspective; 12. Intercultural citizenship as an opportunity for bottom-up intercultural dialogue internationalisation in South America; 13. Student and staff perspectives on Internationalisation at Home: a local investigation; 14. Enhancing faculty and staff engagement in internationalisation: A Hungarian example of training through intercultural dialogue; 15. Are internationalisation strategies and intercultural competences a fitted glove? A case study of part-time management students’ learning experience through intercultural dialogue; PART IV Conclusion; 16. Internationalisation and Higher Education: Questions from an Educationalist/intercultural dialogue perspective