Intercultural Communication Education and Research: Reenvisioning Fundamental Notions

This book challenges the assumptions and ontologies of interculturality, revealing different understandings of intercultural ontologies and epistemologies. It aims to de-monumentalize and disrupt the conceptual tenets that may have rendered interculturality myopic, repetitive, monolithic, and aseptic. It is an essential read for scholars and students of the sociology of education, educational philosophy, and intercultural education.

Format: Hardback
Length: 136 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Seeking to uncover underlying epistemic invisibilities in generating intercultural communication education and research knowledge, and to open up space for envisaging interculturality alternatively, this book reexamines and problematizes the assumptions and ontologies in the conceptual systems of interculturality. In enunciating and critiquing what has been largely endorsed, normalized, and taken for granted, this volume brings to the fore different, changing, and situated understandings of intercultural ontologies and epistemologies in terms of premises, workings, and objectives, unveiling the entangled factors and contexts that have delimited and circumscribed the realm. The authors believe that the field would benefit from some cognitive and sensory dissonance while reengaging effectively with notions to move forward. In particular, they endeavour to de-monumentalize and disrupt the very conceptual tenets that may have rendered interculturality myopic, repetitive, monolithic, and aseptic in expanding the epistemic concerns of the "intercultural," especially in the English language.

This book will be an essential read for scholars and students of the sociology of education, educational philosophy, intercultural education, and also for all readers interested in the broad field of interculturality.

Weight: 336g
Dimension: 162 x 241 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032497303