Critical Intercultural Perspectives on Higher Education

Fred Dervin is a Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Dervin specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism, and student and academic mobility. He is widely published in different languages (over 200 articles and 80 books). Recent books published with Routledge include Communicating around Interculturality in Research and Education (2023), The Paradoxes of Interculturality: A Toolbox of Out-of-the-box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education (2022), Flexing Interculturality (with Hamza R’boul; 2023). Over a career of 25 years, Dervin has made substantial contributions to scholarship on interculturality in both communication and education.

• 1. Introduction: Internationalization of higher education beyond simplistic interculturality Part I – Problematizing and strengthening the way we think about the internationalization of education interculturally 2. Internationalization of higher education: What does it mean in the Chinese context? 3. ‘Selective internationalization’ of higher education: Interculturalization as a power-conscious alternative 4. In praise of cosmopolitan education: Internationalization without (formal) education Part II – Examining internationalization interculturally with and beyond the West 5. Islam, higher education and internationalization through Arabic Medium Education (AME) 6. Internationalization of Korean higher education: A critical appraisal of current practice 7. Global aspirations and local insights: Internationalization and knowledge production in Singapore Part III – Intercultural perspectives on internationalization within the West 8. Internationalization and indigenization in U.S. higher education: Contemporary social-justice education 9. Global competence and languages in the internationalization policies of Spanish higher education 10. Internationalization and interculturality in Finnish education