Language And Culture Pedagogy: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education, 14)

This book presents a view of what it means to teach language and culture in a world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas. It contains an analysis of the national tradition of culture teaching as an aspect of foreign language teaching and proposes a transnational framework for language and culture pedagogy. How can we envisage a new language and culture pedagogy that breaks with the tradition of viewing language as part of a closed national universe of culture, history, people and mentality, and begins to see itself as a field operating in a complex and dynamic world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas? Initially, to understand the field and its current challenges, we must understand its history, and the first part of this book contains a critical analysis of the history of the international field of culture teaching - the first historical treatment of this field ever written. The next part of the book focuses on how we can build a framework for a new transnational language and culture pedagogy that aims at the education of world citizens whose intercultural competence includes critical multilingual and multicultural awareness in a global perspective. -- Publisher description Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Chapter 1. Modern Language Studies: Language, Culture, Nation Chapter 2. Culture Pedagogy up to the 1960s Chapter 3. Culture Pedagogy in the 1970s: Knowledge of Society Chapter 4. Culture Pedagogy in the 1980s: The Marriage of Language and Culture Chapter 5. Culture Pedagogy in the 1990s: Internationalisation and the Intercultural Chapter 6. Culture Pedagogy Today – Questioning of the National Paradigm Chapter 7. Language and Culture: The Structure of the Complexity Chapter 8. Towards a Transnational Language and Culture Pedagogy Chapter 9. The Intercultural Competence of the World Citizen References Author Index Subject Index Presents a fresh view of what it means to teach language and culture in a globalised world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas. This work contains a critical analysis of the national tradition of culture teaching as an aspect of foreign language teaching