University of Helsinki
“The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching”.
(Rushdie 2012: 31)
Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective
I am delighted to announce the creation of a new book series with Palgrave entitled ‘Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective’. The book series is co-edited by myself (Fred Dervin) and Xiangyun Du (University of Aalborg, Denmark).
We are currently accepting new proposals for manuscripts and edited volumes. Please spread the word to your contacts! I am attaching a proposal form which can be returned to fred.dervin@helsinki.fi and xiangyun@learning.aau.dk
12.12
Interrogating Diversity Initiatives and Programmes
12.12.2013 (10-16, place to be announced)
INFO HERE
Department of Teacher Education,
University of Helsinki, Finland
Organised by the Education for Diversities (E4D)
research group (Leader: Fred Dervin)
Speakers:
Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK
Stephen Croucher, University of Jyväskylä
Vanessa de Oliveira, University of Oulu
Liisa Koskinen, Savonia University of Applied Sciences
Richard Lewis, Helsinki
Kirsi Tirri, University of Helsinki
Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki
Kaisa Kuoppala, University of Helsinki (STEP Program)
Heidi Layne, University of Helsinki (Education for Tomorrow research project)
New book: Multicultural Education: From Theory to Practice
Multicultural Education: From Theory to Practice
Editor: Hasan Arslan and Georgeta Raţă
Date Of Publication: Jun 2013
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-4740-7
Isbn: 1-4438-4740-2
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Multicultural-Education–From-Theory-to-Practice1-4438-4740-2.htm
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mayoyama (@homuchiwake) tweetade kl. 9:06am – 9 sep 13:
ヘルシンキ大学のFred Dervinは異文化間能力を「文化の主張の裏にある、顕在的／非顕在的な想定と、それらが覆い隠しているかもしれないパワー・ダイナミクスを問い直すような、批判的能力」と規定。 (https://twitter.com/homuchiwake/status/376949695785881600)
New interview
CFP: Intercultural Communication Between China And the Rest of the World: Beyond (Reverse) Essentialism and Culturalism? 中国与外部世界间的 跨文化交流： 超越 （反向）本质主义和文化主义？
The best education in the world? New book!
The danger of a single story
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
“At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria; we didn’t have snow, we ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to.”
“I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had just read a novel called American Psycho — (Laughter) — and that it was such a shamethat young Americans were serial murderers.”
“How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.”
“That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Intimate Relations
