Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching: Voices from the Virtual Intercultural Borderlands

This book explores the potential of person-to-person peacebuilding through intercultural communication, focusing on a service-learning project in Afghanistan. It analyzes the voices and perspectives of US-based tutors and adult English learners, highlighting the personal, relational, and structural dimensions of peacebuilding. The book suggests ways for teachers and teacher educators to leverage the affordances of peacebuilding in face-to-face and virtual intercultural exchanges.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 16 March 2022
Publisher: Multilingual Matters

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate landscape of person-to-person peacebuilding, exploring its potential as it intersects with and is intricately embedded within intercultural communication. It prioritizes the voices and discourses of participants who united in the virtual intercultural borderlands of online exchange through a service-learning project partnered with a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peace through education in Afghanistan. By meticulously analyzing the perspectives of both US-based tutors who are pre-service teachers of English as an Additional Language and adult English learners in Afghanistan, the authors shed light on how intercultural interactants embark on the journey of becoming peacebuilders. The participants vividly recount the profound transformations they experience throughout their intercultural tutoring journeys, which manifest in three dimensions: personal, relational, and structural. Drawing inspiration from these remarkable voices, the book proceeds to explore innovative approaches for teachers and teacher educators of language and intercultural communication to intentionally harness the power of peacebuilding, whether in face-to-face or virtual intercultural borderlands of online exchange.

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate landscape of person-to-person peacebuilding, exploring its potential as it intersects with and is intricately embedded within intercultural communication. It prioritizes the voices and discourses of participants who united in the virtual intercultural borderlands of online exchange through a service-learning project partnered with a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peace through education in Afghanistan. By meticulously analyzing the perspectives of both US-based tutors who are pre-service teachers of English as an Additional Language and adult English learners in Afghanistan, the authors shed light on how intercultural interactants embark on the journey of becoming peacebuilders. The participants vividly recount the profound transformations they experience throughout their intercultural tutoring journeys, which manifest in three dimensions: personal, relational, and structural. Drawing inspiration from these remarkable voices, the book proceeds to explore innovative approaches for teachers and teacher educators of language and intercultural communication to intentionally harness the power of peacebuilding, whether in face-to-face or virtual intercultural borderlands of online exchange.

Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788927079