Communicating Around Interculturality in Research and Education

This book does not instruct the reader how to communicate interculturally but supports them in reflecting on how they can (re-)negotiate and (re-)construct knowledge(s), ideologies and relations around the notion of interculturality.

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education. Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ’canon’ of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin’s idée fixes in his work over the past 20 years. He has published over 160 articles and 80 books in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration. His latest books published with Routledge also include The Paradoxes of Interculturality and Intercultural Communication Education and Research (co-authored with R’boul).