Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding

“Book Notes

Maine, F., &  Vrikki, M. (Eds.). (2021). Dialogue for intercultural understanding: Placing cultural literacy at the heart of learning. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (so available as open access), this book looks potentially relevant to CID followers.

This book is a result of an extensive, ambitious and wide-ranging pan-European project focusing on the development of children and young people’s cultural literacy and what it means to be European in the twenty-first century, prioritizing intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding.

It includes the following chapters, among others:

  • Intercultural Education for the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Review of Research by Chrysi Rapanta and Susana Trovão

  • Social Responsibility Through the Lens of an Agenda
    for Cultural Literacy Learning: Analyses of National EducationPolicyDocumentation by Sandra Kaire ̇, Lilija Duobliene ̇, and Irena Zaleskiene ̇

  • Explorations of Linkages Between Intercultural Dialogue, Art, and Empathy by Tuuli Lähdesmäki and Aino-Kaisa Koistinen

  • Using Wordless Picturebooks as Stimuli for Dialogic
    Engagement by Fiona Maine and Beci McCaughran

  • Creative Ways to Approach the Theme of Cultural
    Diversity in Wordless Picturebooks Through Visual Reading and Thinking by Marina Rodosthenous-Balafa, Maria Chatzianastasi, and Agni Stylianou-Georgiou

  • Dialogue on Ethics, Ethics of Dialogue: Microgenetic Analysis of Students’ Moral Thinking by Talli Cedar, Michael J. Baker, Lucas M. Bietti, Françoise Détienne, Erez Nir, Gabriel Pallarès, and Baruch B. Schwarz

  • Engaging Teachers in Dialogic Teaching as a Way to Promote Cultural Literacy Learning: A Reflection on Teacher ProfessionalDevelopment by Riikka Hofmann, Maria Vrikki, and Maria Evagorou

  • Educating Cultural Literacy with Open Educational
    Resources: Opportunities and Obstacles of Digital Teacher Collaborations by Elisabeth Mayweg-Paus and Maria Zimmermann

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