Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also holds distinguished professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. Dervin specialises in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and academic mobility. Andreas Jacobsson is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. His research is primarily focused on intercultural communication education, interculturality and early childhood education, intercultural film and media, intercultural epistemology and philosophy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: setting the stage.- Chapter 2.: Why use the word interculturality and not something else? What are the meanings of interculturality today?.- Chapter 3: Why does it really matter? What is interculturality all about in education? What are its goals?.- Chapter 4: What should teachers know about the idea of interculturality?.- Chapter 5: What should/could teachers learn to do with interculturality?.-  Chapter 6: What concepts to use?.- Chapter 7: Step 1: Interculturality from within.- Chapter 8: Step 2: Interculturality and imaginaries.- Chapter 9: Step 3: Interculturality and language.- Chapter 10: Good practice 1: Using textbooks to explore interculturality.- Chapter 11: Good practice 2: The media as an educational resource to rethink interculturality.- Chapter 12: Good practice 3: Fiction and art as a support to develop a sense of interculturality.- Chapter 13. Conclusion.