Interculturality in Higher Education: Putting Critical Approaches Into Practice

Engaging with the topic of critical intercultural education at tertiary level, the book aims to strengthen what critical intercultural communication means and facilitate its implementation in higher education classrooms.

With contributors coming from a variety of educational contexts and disciplines, the book provides a versatile and comprehensive picture of how intercultural communication can be approached in different fields. By offering a reflection on theoretical frameworks for teaching and learning critical intercultural communication, it bridges the gap between theory and practice in recent years. Furthermore, it proposes concrete pedagogical solutions that will help educators working at the tertiary level move from essentialist approaches to meaningful intercultural education.

Higher education teachers, lecturers and professors responsible for the design and delivery of teaching on intercultural communication will find this book helpful and resourceful.

Mélodine Sommier is an academy research fellow (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). Her work concentrates on processes of in- and exclusion at the discursive and interactional levels, and in urban settings through her work on racial landscapes.

Anssi Roiha works as a university lecturer in foreign language didactics (University of Turku, Finland). His main research interests are foreign language teaching and learning, bilingual education, differentiation and intercultural education.

Malgorzata Lahti is Senior Lecturer in Communication (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). She has co-run an international master’s programme in intercultural communication and has extensive experience teaching in the area. Her research interests include interculturality and multilingualism in interactions in organisational and academic contexts.