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

TLDR

Foreign language education is framed as cultural politics, grounded in critical pedagogy and philosophical foundations that emphasize critical cultural awareness and aim to prepare citizens and educators for an intercultural world. The study gathers teachers’ perspectives on critical cultural awareness within foreign language and culture classes. Introduction and bibliographic appendices are provided.

Abstract

Introduction 1. Critical Pedagogy as cultural politics 2. Philosophical foundations for critical cultural awareness 3. The critical dimension in foreign culture education 4. The teachers' voices: How they view critical cultural awareness in foreign language/culture classes 5. Preparing critical citizens and educators for an intercultural world Bibliography Appendices