Making Sense of the Intercultural

Dr Adrian Holliday is Professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University.Dr Sara Amadasi is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Modena & Reggio Emilia.

• Chapter 1: Distant lands and the everydayKati in ExiaMain events, storyline and conceptsMatt and the woman on the trainThe ‘getting on with life’ grand narrativeGetting to the deCentred: The Moor’s accountWhat it takes to listen to the deCentredChapter 2: DeCentred threads resist the expectedThe problem with ‘integration’Working with children as expert agents of culture and identityThe intertwined nature of identity constructionA critical cosmopolitan, deCentred discourse of cultureSearching for hidden spacesChapter 3: Centred threads become blocksChoosing to find threadsDangerous threads: Kati and EliTalking to Wissaal about clothes: threads of ambivalenceBehind the scenes sense-making of threads or not threadsKati, Eli and Matt visit ‘the foreign’: blocks and threads at workBuilding interculturalityChapter 4: Who are we as researchers?Excavating our own researcher agendasIn this togetherChapter 5: Getting on with deCentred lifeMeeting undergraduate studentsAnother unexpected deCentred threadConnecting back to other eventsConclusions