Intercultural Competence in Education: Alternative Approaches for Different Times

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction: Towards the Simultaneity of Intercultural Competence....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Meta-pragmatic Awareness and Intercultural Competence: The Role of Reflection and Interpretation in Intercultural Mediation....Pages 13-30
Intercultural Competence in Host Students? A Study of Danish Students Facing China at Home....Pages 31-50
From ‘Intercultural Speaker’ to ‘Intercultural Reader’: A Proposal to Reconceptualize Intercultural Communicative Competence Through a Focus on Literary Reading....Pages 51-71
Competences for Active Communication and Participation in Diverse Societies: Views of Young People in Iceland....Pages 73-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Intercultural Competence and the Promise of Understanding....Pages 97-120
Intercultural Polyphonies Against the ‘Death of Multiculturalism’: Concepts, Practices and Dialogues....Pages 121-141
Intercultural Competence: Multi-dynamic, Intersubjective, Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches....Pages 143-166
Living Intercultural Lives: Identity Performance and Zones of Interculturality....Pages 167-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
An Interactive, Co-constructed Approach to the Development of Intercultural Understanding in Pre-service Language Teachers....Pages 185-213
Challenges of Teaching Intercultural Business Communication in Times of Turbulence....Pages 215-236
Intercultural Competence: Value Disembedding and Hyper-flexibility....Pages 237-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-261