SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence

Darla K. Deardorff is currently executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators, a national professional organization based at Duke University, where she is a research scholar in education and founder of ICC Global, a global network on intercultural competence research. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, is a visiting faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, and is on faculty of the prestigious Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon.She has received numerous invitations from around the world to speak on her research on intercultural competence and assessment and is a noted expert on these topics. With nearly twenty years of experience in the international education field, she has published widely on topics in international education, including as editor of The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence (Sage, 2009), along with several other books. She serves as a consultant and trainer for universities, corporations and non-profit organizations, and recently completed a project with UNESCO, which resulted in speaking invitations at the first UN-related World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue in Azerbaijan as well as another UN-related event in Qatar.She is an elected Member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, as well as a member of an Expert Group on Internationalization through the International Association of Universities, and a member of an expert advisor group for the US Department of Education, among other advisory board memberships. Her research interests include intercultural competence, outcomes assessment, internationalization, and teacher education. She has lived and worked in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland.

• Foreword - Derek BokPART I. CONCEPTUALIZING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE1. Conceptualizing Intercultural Competence - Brian Spitzberg, Gabrielle Changnon2. The Identity Factor in Intercultural Competence - Young Yun Kim3. The Interculturally Competent Leader - Margaret D. Pusch4. The Moral Circle in Intercultural Competence: Trust Across Cultures - Gert Jan Hofstede5. Intercultural Conflict Competence as a Facet of Intercultural Competence Development: Multiple Conceptual Approaches - Stella Ting-Toomey6. Cultivating Intercultural Competence: A Process Perspective - Janet M. Bennett7. Developing Globally Competent Citizens: The Contrasting Cases of the United States and Vietnam - Mark A. Ashwill, Duong Thi Hoang Oanh8. Understanding Africans′ Conceptualizations of Intercultural Competence - Peter Ogom Nwosu9. An Associative Approach to Intercultural Communication Competence in the Arab World - R.S. Zaharna10. A Chinese Model of Intercultural Leadership Competence - Guo-Ming Chen, Ran An11. Intercultural Competence in German Discourse - Alois Moismueller, Michael Schonhuth12. India: A Cross-Cultural Overview of Intercultural Competence - Ranjini Manian, Shobha Naidu13. Interculturality versus Intercultural Competence in Latin America - Adriana Medina-López-Portillo & John Sinnigen14. Synthesizing Conceptualizations of Intercultural Competence: A Summary of Emerging Themes - Darla K. Deardorff PART II. APPLYING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE15. Passing It On: Intercultural Competence in the Training Arena - Craig Storti16. Leading Global Projects: Bridging the Cultural and Functional-Divide - Robert T. Moran, William E. Youngdahl, Sarah V. Moran17. Developing the Intercultural Competence of Educators and Their Students: Creating the Blueprints - Kenneth Cushner, Jennifer Mahon18. The Intercultural Speaker and the Pedagogy of Foreign Langauge Education - Michael Bryam19. Cultural Mentoring: International Education Professionals and the Development of Intercultural Competence - R. Michael Paige, Matthew L. Goode20. Culturally Competent Practice in Social Work - Rowena Fong21. Global Competence for Engineers - John M. Grandin, Norbert Hedderich22. Neither Jew nor Gentile: Lessons About Intercultural Competence in Religious Organizations - George Yancey23. Developing Skills for Interculturally Competent Care - Rohini Anand, Indra LahiriPART III. ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH IN INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE24. Methodological Issues in Researching Intercultural Competence - Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Kwok Leung25. Applying Theory and Research: The Evolution of Intercultural Competence in U.S. Study Abroad - Michael Vande Berg, R. Michael Paige26. Research Application: Towards a General Framework of Competence for Today′s Global Village - Fons Trompenaars, Peter Wooliams27. Assessing Intercultural Competence: Issues and Tools - Alvino E. Fantini28. Implementing Intercultural Comopetence Assessment - Darla K. Deardorff 29. The Real Cost of Intercultural Competence: An Epilogue - Joseph E. Trimble, Paul B. Pedersen, Eduardo S. Rodela

This much needed handbook provides the latest scholarship and work on intercultural competence, which is so vitally necessary in pursuit of mutual understanding and peace in today′s world."