Through the Looking-glass of Interculturality

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 international mobilities in education. He has widely published in different languages on identity, interculturality and mobility/migration (over 150 articles and 70 books). His latest books include Dervin & Jacobsson (2022) Intercultural Communication Education. Broken Realities and Rebellious Dreams (Springer) and Dervin (2022) Interculturality in Fragments: A Reflexive Perspective (Springer). Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ‘canon’ of intercultural communication education research has been one of Dervin’s idée fixes in his work over the past 20 years. Hamza R’boul is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of International Education, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. His works examine the western hegemony in knowledge production and dissemination in different contexts including intercultural communication and English language teaching. He has published in e.g. Journal of International and Intercultural communication, Language and Intercultural communication, Journal of Multicultural Discourses and Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. His research interests include intercultural communication and education, cultural politics of language teaching, postcoloniality and geopolitics of knowledge.

• Getting to know each other.- Interculturality for the authors.- Autocritiques of the authors’ work.- Ideas for the future of interculturality.- What do the authors want from interculturality together in research and education.- Bibliography.