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Intercultural Competence: towards intercultural understanding

2021
Globalization and its driving forces have led to attempts by both scholars and practitioners to deepen our understanding of people's abilities and strategies to act and interact with others in global, diverse, and complex environments. Education has aimed to keep pace with global socioeconomic changes in order to educate future citizens and members of ...
Laura Pylväs, Petri Nokelainen
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Can Events Facilitate Intercultural Understanding?

2021
The 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, 1947
E 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, 2012
Abstract 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

2009
In 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

2016
The 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, 2008
Although 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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