Born in California, Joseph Shaules (PhD) has worked in language and intercultural education for more than 20 years. For ten years he was a tenured faculty member at Rikkyo University, Tokyo. He has worked in curriculum design, educational publishing, and was the co-presenter of the NHK television program Crossroads Café. He teaches courses in intercultural education at the Rikkyo Graduate School of Intercultural Communication. He does intercultural training in Japan, and has lived and worked abroad (Mexico, Japan, and France) for more than 20 years. He is proficient in English, Japanese, French and Spanish. He created the PICO Intercultural Learning System and is the director of the Japan Intercultural Institute.

• IntroductionPart 1: The Intercultural ExperienceChapter 1: Intercultural Contact in the Global VillageChapter 2: Objections to CultureChapter 3: Understanding the Deep Structure of CultureChapter 4: Deep Cultural Difference and Increased PrejudiceChapter 5: What is Successful Cultural Learning?Chapter 6: The Process of Intercultural Learning Part 2: A Model of Cultural LearningChapter 7: The Deep Culture ModelChapter 8: Resistance to ChangeChapter 9: Acceptance of DifferenceChapter 10: Adaptation and Cultural IdentityChapter 11: Resistance and RapportChapter 12: Beyond AdaptationChapter 13: Implications for the “Global Village”GlossaryReferences

This book is a timely intervention in the field of intercultural communication and the forms of learning that underpin it. It takes issue with existing approaches that construe intercultural learning as a largely linear process, and argues that things are considerably more complex.