Interculturality in Fragments

Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is Director of the TENSION research group (diversities and interculturality in education) and Acting Director of the SEDUCE (Society, culture and education) doctoral school at Helsinki. Dervin also holds several distinguished and visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages on identity, the 'intercultural' and mobility/migration (over 150 articles and 60 books). His latest books include: Dervin, Sude, Yuan & Chen (2021) Interculturality East and West: Unthink, Dialogue, Rethink (Springer); Dervin & Yuan (2021) Revitalizing Interculturality, Minzu as a Companion (Routledge); Dervin & Jacobsson (2021) Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality (Palgrave MacMillan); Dervin & Simpson (2021) Interculturality and the Political within Education (Routledge).

• Introduction.- What interculturality might be not about: Misconceptions, hoaxes and intercultural speak.- What interculturality could be: Uncertainties and suggestions.- What interculturality could be: Uncertainties and suggestions.- Ideologies of interculturality: Building up awareness of the predatory and falsely critical.- Ideologies of interculturality: Building up awareness of the predatory and falsely critical.- Ideologies of interculturality: Building up awareness of the predatory and falsely critical.- Language: The substance of interculturality.- Researching interculturality otherwise.- Coda.- Bibliography.- Glossary.