Search results for ""Author Fred Dervin""
Springer Verlag, Singapore Interculturality Between East and West: Unthink, Dialogue and Rethink
This book urges readers to develop a radical capacity to unthink and rethink interculturality, through multiple, pluri-perspectival and honest dialogues between the authors, and their students. This book does not give interculturality a normative scaffolding but envisages it differently by identifying some of its polyphonic textures. China’s rich engagement with interculturality serves to support the importance of being curious about other ways of thinking about the notion beyond the ‘West’ only. As such, the issues of culture, identity, language, translation, intercultural competence and silent transformations (amongst others) are re-evaluated in a different light. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing scientific insights for readers with an interest in interculturality.
£99.99
Peter Lang AG New Approaches to Assessing Language and (Inter-)Cultural Competences in Higher Education / Nouvelles approches de l’évaluation des compétences langagières et (inter-)culturelles dans l’enseignement supérieur
Assessment is omnipresent and multifaceted in contemporary institutions of higher education. This collection provides a sound and revealing overview of language and (inter-)cultural assessment practices in European higher education and beyond (Australia, China and Japan). It addresses mainly the following questions: What sort of assessment is taking place? What purposes does it serve? What representations do teaching staff and learners have of assessing language and (inter-)cultural competences in higher education? The chapters were first presented at the bilingual conference (English and French) Assessing language and (inter-)cultural competences in Higher Education at Turku University (Finland) in 2007. L’évaluation est un phénomène multiforme et omniprésent dans l’enseignement supérieur. Ce volume collectif propose un large éventail d’articles, qui passent en revue les pratiques d’évaluation en didactique des langues dans les systèmes éducatifs européens mais aussi en Australie, en Chine et au Japon. Les auteurs s’interrogent sur les questions suivantes : quels types d’évaluation sont mis en œuvre dans le supérieur ? Dans quels buts ? Quelles représentations les enseignants et les apprenants ont-ils de l’évaluation des compétences langagières et interculturelles ? Les textes qui constituent l’ouvrage ont été présentés au colloque intitulé Evaluation des compétences langagières et (inter-)culturelles dans l’enseignement supérieur, organisé par l’Université de Turku (Finlande) en 2007.
£54.50