Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Difficult Times: Conflict, Crisis, and Creativity (Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication)

This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises. The book draws on case studies from a range of educational contexts in the Global South which engage in creative arts methodologies to foreground decolonising approaches to intercultural communication in which researchers question their own power in the research process. The volume offers intercultural resources that can be used by researchers and community support groups to foster active intercultural communication, dialogue, participation, and responsibility among young people in these settings and those who may be marginalised from them. The collection also highlights the reflexive accounts of researchers working in a transnational, interdisciplinary, and multilingual research network and the subsequent opportunities and challenges of working in such networks. Advocating for intercultural understanding among young people in higher education and a greater focus on social justice in intercultural communication research, this book will be of interest to students and researchers in applied linguistics, language education, intercultural education, and multilingualism. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Critical Intercultural Pedagogies in Contexts of Conflict and Crises The Research Aims and Focus The Emergent Project Network Foregrounding Epistemic Justice: Research as Ethical and Political Activism Freirean Dialogue and Educational Empowerment New Materialism and Creative Arts A Critical Intercultural Pedagogy of Hope for Languages and Intercultural Communication Outline of the Chapters Part I – The Case Studies Examples of Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Language and Intercultural Communication in Contexts of Crises Part II – Responses From the Global South Decentring “Western” and “Eurocentric” Epistemologies and Pedagogies Part III – Building Multilingual Intercultural Research Networks in Higher Education Notes References Part I The Case Studies: Examples of Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Language and Intercultural Communication in ... 2 Pre-Service Language Teachers as Multilingual Mediators Introduction Project Outline Student Profile and Context The Scholarship as a Third Space of Intercultural Tensions Conceptual Pillars of the Study Critical Intercultural Pedagogy (CIP) as a Transformative Pedagogy and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed (TdO) Methodological Design Analysing SPP Scholars’ Views and Self-Concepts: Pre-Workshop Initial Reflections In-workshop Activities: Building On Critical Intercultural Pedagogy Through Drama Strategies SPP Scholars’ Explorations With Drama The Meaning and Reach of Critical Intercultural Pedagogy Designing a Toolbox of Drama Activities Two Examples: The Singer and the Mute and Two Siblings, Two Worlds The Singer and the Mute Two Siblings, Two Worlds The Mirror Project Final Reflections Note References 3 Connecting Palestine and Brazil: Towards a Critical and Creative Intercultural Pedagogy for Online Intercultural Exchange Introduction Marginalised Voices: Writing Flash Non-Fiction in Natal Writing in Crisis: Fiction and Poetry From Gaza Writing Across the Margins: Connecting Natal and Gaza Seeing Eye to Eye: The Pleasures of Synchronicity Conclusion: Lessons Learned Notes References 4 Hearing the Intercultural Voices: Shared Religio-Cultural Music and Dialogue Among Turkish Students and Syrian Refugee ... Introduction Research On Refugee Youth in Turkish Higher Education The Shortcomings of Refugee Research: Missing Voices Arts-based Approaches The Research Approach: The Capacity to Aspire and the Politics of Recognition Aims and Methodology Workshop Participation: The Value of an Arts-Based, Well-Being-Focused Language Pedagogy Identifying and Developing Aspirations for Higher Education Enhancing Intercultural Understanding and Learning Through Arts-Based Methodologies Critical Intercultural Pedagogies: Moving Beyond Deficit Models and Power Asymmetries Conclusion Note References 5 To Be With the Other On Campus: Learning for Intercultural Understanding Through Participatory Photography Introduction Internationalisation, Migration, and the Need for Intercultural Learning Critical Pedagogy and Intercultural Dialogue Shaping the Participatory Photography Study Participatory Photography Method Confronting Otherness: The Problem of Deficit Discourses Interaction With the Other: “Now You Have a Friend” Turkish Students’ Changing Perceptions of the Other Participatory Photography for Intercultural Learning Conclusions Note References 6 Participation, Understanding, and Dialogue: Intercultural Learning Among Students in Higher Education and Refugee Youths Introduction Decentring and Decolonising Research Approaches Through an Intercultural Pedagogy and New Materialism Critical Intercultural Pedagogy New Materialism, Languaging, and Translanguaging Methodology and Method: Creative Arts-Based Workshops as an “Entangled” Space for Building a Critical Intercultural Pedagogy Making Connections Through Creative Arts (Workshop 1) The Marshmallow Challenge Intercultural Photography Exchange Sharing a Song Intercultural Learning Via the “go-Along” (Workshop 2) The University as an Intercultural Learning Space (Workshop 3) Conclusions Notes References Part II Responses From the Global South: Decentering “Western” and “Eurocentric” Epistemologies and Pedagogies 7 Intercultural Responsibility in Conditions of Conflict and Crises: Glocademics in Action Introduction Glocademics Glocal Languages Intercultural Responsibility Conclusions: Critical Intercultural Pedagogies Notes References 8 “I’m Afraid There Are No Easy Fixes”: Reflections On Teaching Intercultural Communication Through Embracing Vulnerability From the Global South and Based in the Global North Feeling Vulnerable in the World: Individual Vulnerability Being in this Vulnerability Together: Collective Vulnerability Learning Through Vulnerability: Disciplinary Vulnerability Conclusion References 9 Intersecting Languages, Cultures, and Identities in Decoloniality Notes References 10 Interculturality, Interculturalidad, and the Colonial Difference Different Interculturalities The Colonial Difference Different Languages, Different Concepts, Different Understandings Different Knowledges Different State Models of Interculturalidad Final Words References Part III Building Multilingual Intercultural Research Networks in Higher Education 11 The Establishment, Affordances, and Impact of an International Research Network: Building an Intercultural Pedagogy ... Theoretical Considerations The Proposal Applicants Project Objectives Promised Outcomes The Visits Evaluating the Impact Notes References 12 An Ethic for Researching Multilingually in Transnational, Multilingual, Multidisciplinary Research Teams Research Context and Aims Languages in the Project, Languaging, Translanguaging Method of Data Collection and Analysis Languages in the Case Study Research Contexts Language Practices Concerning Literature Reviews Language Practices Concerning Fieldwork Analysing and Representing Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Data Writing Up the Case Studies Addressing Linguistic Hegemonies Lived Experiences Working in a Multilingual Research Group Conclusions Note References Afterword References Index "This collection lends a critical decolonizing lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises"-- Provided by publisher