Change and Exchange in Global Education

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland and Distinguished and Visiting Professor at different universities around the world. Dervin has written extensively about interculturality in (teacher) education, proposing to systematise the use of critical and reflexive perspectives.Mei Yuan is Associate Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China. Yuan has led many research projects on Minzu and intercultural education and is recipient of many awards for her contributions to ‘minority’ education.  Sude is Professor at the School of Education, Minzu University of China. His research interests include multicultural education, diversity in teacher education and intercultural competence in superdiverse institutions and he is considered as one of the most influential scholars in the field of Chinese Minzu education. Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Helsinki, Finland. Chen specialises in diversity in higher education.

• Introduction. Why ‘Chinese’ stories of interculturality?.- Chapter 1. Approaching interculturality: Culture and civilization as discursive and reflexive tools.- Chapter 2. Exploring and explaining experiences of interculturality.- Chapter 3. ‘Doing’ interculturality together.- Chapter 4. Making interculturality work together, as group/community members.- Chapter 5. Learning to ‘do’ interculturality.- Chapter 6. Pondering over language and interculturality.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.