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The Discursive Construction of Intercultural Understanding in China - A Case Study of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (Hardcover)
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The Discursive Construction of Intercultural Understanding in China - A Case Study of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (Hardcover)
Series: Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
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This book represents an ethnographic study of an International
Baccalaureate Diploma Program in a school in mainland China,
serving Chinese students and staffed by teachers from a variety of
origins. It offers in-depth descriptions of the way in which
students, teachers, and managers interact and communicate with one
another in a variety of school activities. Through the
communication process, cultural experiences and understandings are
negotiated constantly among school participants. The ethnographic
study also has a critical intention. Going beyond description, the
author discusses the extent to which networks of social
relationships in the case are imbued by asymmetries in power, and
how this leads to people's inability, unwillingness, and
unawareness to interact with those from different cultural
backgrounds. As research findings reveal, where the construction of
meaning is less equally available to each participant, prejudice
and exclusiveness are more likely to be assumed, impeding
individuals' intercultural learning. The key is to empower those
less privileged, giving them legitimacy to come to voice in an
institutional context on the one hand, and protecting their
reflections on hegemonic discourse meticulously on the other hand.
Since the research explores the complexities and subtleties of the
communication process that are bound to particular contexts, like
most ethnographic studies, it aims at adding a body of experience
and humanistic understanding of cultures, rather than testing
theories. Although the IB Program being studied can hardly be
representative of the overall development of international
education in China, the detailed description of contextual issues
of the case and the research procedures could facilitate the
readers to vicariously experience these events, thus they can make
their own decisions about the transferability of the research to
their own unique situations.
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