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Where Do You Stand? [electronic resource] : Intercultural Learning and Political Education in Contemporary Europe / edited by Yael Ohana, Hendrik Otten.

By: Ohana, Yael [editor.].
Contributor(s): Otten, Hendrik [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012Description: 276p. 2 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783531943268.Subject(s): Education | Education | Education (general) | Communication StudiesDDC classification: 370 Online resources: Click here to access online In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book considers the many and often controversial debates about the theoretical underpinning, ideological positioning and political significance of intercultural learning in and for the European youth field. Its starting point is the current de-politicisation of intercultural learning in the field, which sees it as a central approach. Contributors challenge the elevation of intercultural dialogue to panacea for all societal problems from civil war to educational failure, the problematic position of notions of culture at the heart of intercultural learning practice and much of the accepted wisdom on the purposes, contents, approaches and methods of intercultural learning and on the competences required of those delivering it. In an attempt to breathe new life into what is criticised as a stagnant debate, this book asks all those concerned with political education and intercultural learning to rethink where they stand in relation to the theoretical foundations and basic principles of an educational practice that seems to be in need of radical re-politicisation if it is to live up to the contemporary challenges putting its mobilisational capacity to the test.
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This book considers the many and often controversial debates about the theoretical underpinning, ideological positioning and political significance of intercultural learning in and for the European youth field. Its starting point is the current de-politicisation of intercultural learning in the field, which sees it as a central approach. Contributors challenge the elevation of intercultural dialogue to panacea for all societal problems from civil war to educational failure, the problematic position of notions of culture at the heart of intercultural learning practice and much of the accepted wisdom on the purposes, contents, approaches and methods of intercultural learning and on the competences required of those delivering it. In an attempt to breathe new life into what is criticised as a stagnant debate, this book asks all those concerned with political education and intercultural learning to rethink where they stand in relation to the theoretical foundations and basic principles of an educational practice that seems to be in need of radical re-politicisation if it is to live up to the contemporary challenges putting its mobilisational capacity to the test.

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