2022 International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence
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Imaginaries of Internationalization in Dialogues in Chinese Higher Education
Presentation Summary
In this study we employ the notions of social imaginary to analyze dialogues by international and domestic students in a Chinese university, then reveal different political-ideological components of discourses of internationalization of their potential influences on interculturality.
Primary Presenter
Huiyu Tan, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics/ University of Helsinki
State (if in the U.S.)
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Country
China
Professional Biography
Huiyu Tan is a lecturer at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (China) and a PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki (Finland). She has been teaching intercultural communication for many years and has published in journals on intercultural education.
Secondary Presenters
Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki
State (if in the U.S.)
Country
Finland
Professional Biography
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dervin also holds several distinguished and visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. He specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility, and has widely published in international journals on identity, the 'intercultural' and mobility/migration.