为了探讨如何培养跨文化能力,英国杜伦大学组织了两场研讨会,邀请商界的跨文化培训师和学术界的跨文化研究者进行对话,冯安伟等编著的这本《在教育与培训中提高跨文化能力》收录的文章即是两场研讨会的结晶。这两个来自不同背景的群体虽然都关注跨文化能力的发展,但是他们在目的、方法和理念上存在差异。针对“跨文化能力是如何培养的?”这个问题,有两种极端思想:它是通过体验,通过在国外生活、旅游、结识陌生人等方式习得的;它只有通过目的明确的系统教育才能培养。这两种极端思想显然都是不可行的。另一个关于如何培养跨文化能力的争议在于教育和培训的作用。这个问题可以通过分析教育和培训的概念以及它们之间的关系来解答。
About the Authors
Foreword
Adrian Holliday
Foreword
Anne Davidson-Lund
Introduction
Mike Fleming
Part 1: Investigations of Intercultural Encounters and Learning
1 Cultures of Organisations Meet Ethno-linguistic Cultures:
Narratives in Job Interviews
Celia Roberts
2 Exporting the Multiple Market Experience and the
SME Intercultural Paradigm
Terry Mughan
3 Evolving Intercultural Identity During Living and Studying
Abroad: Five Mexican Women Graduate Students
Phyllis Ryan
4 Becoming Interculturally Competent in a Third Space
Anwei Feng
Part 2: Reflections on Teaching and Learning Programmes
5 A Critical Perspective on Teaching Intercultural Competence
in a Management Department
Gavin Jack
6 Applying the Principles: Instruments for Intercultural
Business Training
Barry Tomalin
7 Intercultural Teacher: A Case Study of a Course
Ulla Lundgren
8 Using 'Human Global Positioning System' as a
Navigation Tool to the Hidden Dimension of Culture Claudia Finkbeiner
9 Professional Training: Creating Intercultural Space in Multi-ethnic Workplaces
Catharine Arakelian
10 The Pragmatics of Intercultural Competence in
Education and Training: A Cross-national Experiment on 'Diversity Management'.
Manuela Guilherme, Evelyne Glaser and
Mafia del Carmen Mdndez Garcfa
Afterword
Mike Byram
Index