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Book SynopsisHow 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.
Trade Review"Risager's book offers us not only an excellent overview of the history of culture teaching, but also a new transnational perspective on language education. Within the Danish context, Risager's work has been highly influential in developing our reflections on language teaching and learning. I am very happy that this is now made available to a wider audience!"
-- Anne Holmen, Professor of Danish as a Second Language and Bilingualism, Head of the Doctoral School of Education at the Danish University of Education
Table of Contents1. Modern Language Studies: Language, Culture, Nation
2. Culture Pedagogy until the 1960s
3. Culture Pedagogy in the 1970s - Knowledge of Society
4. Culture Pedagogy in the 1980s - The Marriage of Language and Culture
5. Culture Pedagogy in the 1990s - Internationalisation and the Intercultural
6. Culture Pedagogy Today - Questioning of the National Paradigm
7. Language and Culture: The Structure of the Complexity
8. Towards a Transnational Language and Culture Pedagogy
9. The Intercultural Competence of the World Citizen
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Subject Index
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