Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures
Author: Michael Byram, Karen Risager
- Format:
- Hardback
- Related Formats:
- ISBN:
- 9781853594410
- Published:
- 10th Mar 1999
- Publisher:
- Multilingual Matters
- Number of pages:
- 216
- Dimensions:
- 210mm x 148mm
- Availability:
- Available
Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK. He has published numerous books, including most recently Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to Practice (edited with Manuela Wagner and Dorie Conlon Perugini, Multilingual Matters, 2017).
Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Intercultural Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. Research interests: the relationships between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective; cultural representations in language textbooks; the intercultural learning of the global citizen; intercultural dialogue and multilingual policies at the international university. Some publications: Language and Culture: Global Flows and Local Complexity (Multilingual Matters 2006); Language and Culture Pedagogy: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm (Multilingual Matters 2007). Researching Identity and Interculturality (co-edited with Fred Dervin) (Routledge 2015), Representations of the World in Language Textbooks (Multilingual Matters 2018).
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 European Integration and the European Dimension: Teachers' Views
2 European Integration: Political and Educational Trends
3 The Cultural Dimension in Foreign Language Education
4 Teachers' Views on the Cultural Dimension
5 Stereotypes, Prejudice and Tolerance
6 Learning by Experience: Contacts Abroad
7 New Relationships Between Language and Culture: The Way Forward
Appendices
References