Critical Pedagogy: Political Approaches to Languages and Intercultural Communication »

Alison Phipps is senior lecturer and Director of the Graduate School for Arts and Humanities at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches anthropology and languages. Her books include Acting Identities (2000), and Contemporary German Cultural Studies (2002). She is associate editor of the journal Tourism and Cultural Change.
Manuela Guilherme is a researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, where she co-ordinates international and national projects in the area of Intercultural Education and teaches seminars at postgraduate level. She has recently published Critical Citizens for an Intercultural World with Multilingual Matters.

Seven leading American and British scholars contribute four essays engaging with the political, cultural, and ideological questions raised in teaching and learning languages and intercultural communication. Coverage includes the suffering of international youth and the need to include them as central to any transformative notion of pedagogy of social and public responsibility; issues of post- colonialism and the subaltern in academic literacy; the constitutive nature of communication within a critical pedagogy; and implications for foreign language educators of listening to the voices of foreign language student teachers. No subject index. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR