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10 - International Initiatives in K–12 and Higher Education

Learning from and Moving Beyond Disciplinary History

from Part II - Practice of Intercultural Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Jennifer Mahon  and
Kenneth Cushner
Edited by
Dan Landis  and
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
Dan Landis
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Hilo
Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
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Summary

This chapter begins by tracing the development of initiatives in intercultural and multicultural education that have dominated the paradigm of K–12 education and teacher preparation for more than sixty years before moving to more recent attempts to integrate international or global perspectives into the education of all. Throughout the chapter, key concepts from the fields of cross-cultural communication and intercultural training, as well as the work of influential intercultural researchers and practitioners, are analyzed particularly emphasizing how they have influenced the field of education. Recent and promising international education initiatives and practices, organizations that promote comprehensive curricular frameworks and/or policy initiatives, and outcomes of recent studies that assess their impact in K–12 as well as higher education are presented. Finally, we argue for a new perspective on terminology, so rather than continuing to work myopically within independent disciplines, we begin to look across our efforts to understand other cultures under the umbrella term “education that is cultural,” or ETIC.

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intercultural educationmulticultural educationinternational educationteacher education
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The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Training , pp. 357 - 376
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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