Critical Citizens for an Intercultural World: Foreign Language Education as Cultural Politics

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Multilingual Matters, 1 jan 2002 - 296 pagina's
This text offers theoretical foundations and practical proposals for the development of critical cultural awareness and intercultural communication competence among prospective and practising foreign language/culture educators. It proposes an enhanced cultural and political role for educators in this area by relating foreign language/culture education to education for democratic citizenship at global, inter- and intra-national levels.
 

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Critical Pedagogy as Cultural Politics
17
Philosophical Foundations for Critical Cultural Awareness
63
The Critical Dimension in Foreign Culture Education
121
Critical Cultural Awareness in
170
Preparing Critical Citizens and Educators for
206
Bibliography
227
Questionnaire
253
Questionário A
265
Questionário B
274
Statistical Results of the Questionnaires A and B
284
Interview Guide for FocusGroup
291
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Over de auteur (2002)

Machiko Achiba is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tokyo Woman's Christian University (Tokyo Joshi Daigaku) in Japan and has been teaching for many years in the field. Her research interests are pragmatics, second language acquisition, and the methodologies of teaching English as a foreign language. She received her master's degree from Southern Illinois University in the United States and holds her doctorate from La Trobe University in Australia. She is the mother of this study's subject.

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