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Social workers and intercultural mediators: challenges for collaboration and intercultural awareness

European Journal of Social Work, 2018
Social work in Europe is facing numerous challenges in terms of promoting the participation of migrants and their descendants in super-diverse societies.
Angela Genova, Eduardo Barberis
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Mediating intercultural bureaucratic encounters

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 2013
Governments throughout Australia have deployed Aboriginal specific positions within government departments in an effort to improve access to government services for Aboriginal people. This small-scale study uses a qualitative interpretive interview approach to explore the communication strategies that enable two Aboriginal staff to act as mediators ...
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Emotions in Intercultural Mediation

2020
The cultural handling of conflicts and corresponding constructive solutions are culturally-bound and can easily lead to irritation in the intercultural field. Thoughts, verbal and non-verbal expressions and actions are always accompanied by feelings and emotions or even determined by them.
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Visions of Intercultural Mediation

2020
In the coming years, intercultural mediation will play an ever-increasing role in globally and internationally: be it in international, regional and local politics, in the business arena or in the health sector, in the multicultural educational institutions or social services.
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Challenges in Intercultural Mediation

2020
Power imbalances play a major role in mediation. Bringing balances into often unbalanced structures is a challenge and the claim is certainly culturally-linked. Often, mediators from Western contexts pursue such an ideal notion, which is based on the value of equality for all persons.
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Supporting intercultural computer-mediated discourse

CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '03, 2003
We use the term "intercultural" instead of "cultural" to emphasis the dialogical relationship of at least two participants from different cultures in computer-mediated communication and cooperation contexts. Supporting intercultural computer-mediated communication (I-CMC) requires, on the one hand, the understanding of both enabling and constraining ...
Fahri Yetim, Elaine M. Raybourn
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Mediation in intercultural interaction

This article examines the question of how groups of foreign language learners interact and cooperate in a virtual learning enviornment. The observations are based on an explorative empirical study of mediation activities among US-American German as Foreign Language learners.
Arras, Ulrike, Schuhmann, Katharina
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Intercultural Competencies in Mediation

2020
Many authors have dealt interdisciplinary with the question of the definition of intercultural mediation (Augsburger, 1992; Busch, 2005; Busch & Mayer, 2017; Liebe & Gilbert, 1996; Mayer, 2005, 2017; Mayer & Vanderheiden, 2016). However, there has not been a generally applicable definition yet. Rather, the attributions of meaning vary in terms of their
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Intercultural Competences Through Mediated Learning

2011
In this chapter, we report on the various teaching strategies we use to facilitate the emergence of Intercultural Competences in two French Graduate Schools of Engineering, Telecom Bretagne and ENSIETA. Our two tier experiential teaching design creates a space for negotiation, with learning conditions which enable students to gain first hand experience
Gourvès-Hayward, Alison, Morace, Christophe   +1 more
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Mediation Techniques in Intercultural Contexts

2020
We tend to suspect that many Western mediators believe that they also work in intercultural contexts with the tools of Western techniques in mediation (see the chapter on Techniques of Mediation). However, there are hardly any empirical studies on the success and effectiveness of these techniques in intercultural mediation.
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