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Can Events Facilitate Intercultural Understanding?
2021The founding philosophy of many cultural events established after the Second World War was to enhance the dynamics of peace through supporting and developing multicultural understanding. Over 50 years after their establishment, this chapter investigates the potential of such iconic events to achieve this aim and contribute to the concept of peace ...
Karen Davies, Caroline Ritchie
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Education for Intercultural Understanding
The Journal of Higher Education, 1947E DUCATION must fit men to understand and solve the inescapable problems of our time. Any consideration of the character of education, therefore, must begin with an analysis of these problems. Even at the cost of becoming repetitious, it must none the less be reiterated that the most pressing problem of our time centers in the atomic bomb. The presence
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Understanding intercultural facework behaviours
The Journal of International Communication, 2012Abstract Researchers use the expression ‘facework’ to conceptualise interaction behaviour. When people from different cultures interact, they assume that the other party also thinks and behaves in the same way as they do; nevertheless people think and behave according to their own cultural norms and values.
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Achieving Understanding in Intercultural Interaction
2009In the last chapter we noted that competence in communication is an important component of intercultural competence. In this chapter we explore this aspect in greater depth, focusing on the impact of culture on the process of achieving understanding, and the competencies that are needed for handling this.
Helen Spencer-Oatey, Peter Franklin
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Understanding Organizational Intercultural Interactions in Corporations
2016The understanding of organizational interactions in corporations is based on the several definitions and typologies. There are many possible organizational interactions connected to different social processes, such as communication, power relations and control, tangible and intangible exchange and others.
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Communicative Reason and Intercultural Understanding
European Journal of Political Theory, 2008Although Habermas sees intercultural understanding as a political task, his model of communicative rationality cannot satisfactorily explain how this could happen. One reason is the definition of the aesthetic, form-giving, moment of imagination, which reflects deeper epistemological and linguistic assumptions of discourse ethics.
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Storytelling for Intercultural Understanding and Intercultural Sensitivity Development
2017For centuries, we have exchanged stories to transmit knowledge and experience in social contexts. These stories never belonged to the tellers but were dependent on shared narrative sources and, therefore, understood in certain cultural circles. When these stories were deciphered by “newcomers”, they worked like a door opener, enabling access to new ...
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Intercultural Understanding of Teacher Educators
2015Teaching for interculturalism requires teacher educators (TEs) to reflect upon themselves before they can model and facilitate the intercultural growth of their students. Using qualitative inquiry with a mixed method component, this study investigated 10 TEs' understanding of interculturalism, examined the Intercultural Development Inventory's® (IDI ...
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Understanding Intercultural Communication
2012In the fast global world of ever-growing mobility, problems increasingly surface in daily intercultural interactions. This contribution explores cultural differences between people from China and people from Europe. The aim is to acquire a better knowledge of and to gain more insight into intercultural communication between Chinese and Dutch ...
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