From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK and Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg.Irina Golubeva is Head of the International Mobility Office at the University of Pannonia, Hungary.Han Hui is Professor at the School of Foreign Languages at Zhejiang A&F University, China.Manuela Wagner is Associate Professor of Foreign Language Education and Director of the German Language and Culture Program at the University of Connecticut, USA.

This book offers educators an approach to developing ‘intercultural citizenship’ and illustrates ways in which teachers and learners can cooperate to develop an openness and willingness to learn about others and to resolve conflicts peacefully. The world today desperately needs more citizens competent to do just this.

• Foreword by Martyn BarrettAcknowledgements ContributorsIntroductionSection 1. The Baseline: Learners’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Intercultural Citizenship1. Irina Golubeva, Mary Yakimowski and Manuela Wagner: Comparing Students’ Perceptions of Language Learning and Global Citizenship in Hungary and the United States2.  Han Hui, Song Li, Jing Hongtao and Zhao Yuqin: Exploring Perceptions of Intercultural Citizenship among English Learners in Chinese Universities  3. Ulla Lundgren: Intercultural encounters in Teacher Education: Collaboration Towards Intercultural CitizenshipSection 2. Teachers Cooperating4. Etsuko Yamada and Jessie Hsieh: Beyond Language Barriers: Approaches to Developing Citizenship for Lower Level Language Classes5. Stephanie Ann Houghton and Mei Lan Huang: Incorporating Environmental Action into Intercultural Dialogue: Personal and Environmental Transformation and the Development of Intercultural Communicative CompetenceSection 3. Learners Cooperating6. Melina Porto, Petra Daryai-Hansen, María Emilia Arcuri and Kira Schifler: Green Kidz: Young Learners Engage in Intercultural Environmental Citizenship in English Language Classroom In Argentina and Denmark.7. Catherine Peck and Manuela Wagner: Understanding Intercultural Citizenship in Korea and the USA 8. Melina Porto: Mural Art and Graffiti: Developing Intercultural Citizenship in Higher Education Classes in English as a Foreign Language in Argentina and Italy9. Melina Porto and Leticia Yulita: Language and Intercultural Citizenship Education for a Culture of Peace. The Malvinas/Falklands Project10. Leticia Yulita and Melina Porto: Human Rights Education in Language TeachingReflections: Learning From the Challenges and Seeking Ways Forward