Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark. She is the author of Language and Culture Pedagogy: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm (Multilingual Matters, 2007).

The cultural dimensions of language learning are important and complex. Teachers and researchers will therefore welcome this accessible introduction to culture for language learning. Risager breaks through the seemingly impenetrable divide between theory and practice by analyzing textbooks through multiple theoretical perspectives on culture.

• PrefaceChapter 1. Representations of the WorldChapter 2. Culture in Textbook Analyses around the WorldChapter 3. National StudiesChapter 4. Citizenship Education StudiesChapter 5. Cultural StudiesChapter 6. Postcolonial StudiesChapter 7. Transnational StudiesConclusionAppendix 1: Textbooks SelectedAppendix 2: Survey CorpusAppendix 3: List of Photos from TextbooksReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index