Karen Risager is Dr.Phil. and Professor in Cultural Encounters at the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark. She has conducted interdisciplinary research for thirty years within the fields of language and culture teaching, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, internationalisation and intercultural competence, and the language and cultural learning of adult migrants. She is one of the initiators of an interdisciplinary Master’s programme in Cultural Encounters, focusing on culture, language, identity and power in a global perspective. Selected publications: Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures (Multilingual Matters 1999, with Michael Byram) and Language and Culture: Global Flows and Local Complexity (Multilingual Matters 2006).

"Risager's book offers us not only an excellent overview of the history of culture teaching, but also a new transnational perspective on language education. Within the Danish context, Risager's work has been highly influential in developing our reflections on language teaching and learning. I am very happy that this is now made available to a wider audience!"

• 1. Modern Language Studies: Language, Culture, Nation2. Culture Pedagogy until the 1960s3. Culture Pedagogy in the 1970s - Knowledge of Society4. Culture Pedagogy in the 1980s - The Marriage of Language and Culture5. Culture Pedagogy in the 1990s - Internationalisation and the Intercultural6. Culture Pedagogy Today - Questioning of the National Paradigm7. Language and Culture: The Structure of the Complexity8. Towards a Transnational Language and Culture Pedagogy9. The Intercultural Competence of the World CitizenReferencesSubject IndexName Index