From international to intercultural: Redefining the international school for a globalized world

Communitivity and Intercommunitivity as Tools for Collective Learning to Address Ethnic Service Programming, Delivery and Evaluation

“…This implies that the client not the community learns how to access services. This approach needs to be changed because (Heyward, 2002). It has to be kept in mind that immigrants' cultural intelligences can be shared and a collective learning from each other may generate collective practices of immigrant services programming, delivering and service evaluation.…”

Intercultural and Media Literacy: Global Tendencies in Metacontent of Teacher Education in Latvia

“…However, his understanding of cultural literacy is rather related to knowledge of the cultural symbols of the American white race than to a critical evaluation of cultural identity and search for intercultural connections. Heyward (2002) argues that intercultural literacy is rather extensive for it considers representatives of various cultures living together in a common space. He observes that the acquisition of intercultural literacy enables creating "a safe, sustainable and just global community" that promotes development of an open and tolerant society (p. 11).…”

“…People can identify themselves with several cultural types simultaneously. According to Heyward (2002), an interculturally literate person is one who acknowledges his or her own transcultural identity and is able to "shift between multiple cultural identities" (p. 17).…”

“…McLaren (1995McLaren ( , 1997 argues that the aim of intercultural education is to help students to explore the borders of their cultural identity, learn about their race, ethnicity, class and other keystones of identity and to understand other cultural identities. Heyward's (2002) multidimensional model of intercultural literacy implies six aspects: understanding, competencies, attitudes, participation, language proficiencies and identities. Several other authors (Bennett, 1998;Peterson, 2004;Chen & Starosta, 2005) also argue about the aspects of intercultural literacy.…”

Japanese University Students’ Attitudes towards Globalisation, Intercultural Contexts and English

“…Intercultural competence refers to the understandings, competencies, attitudes, language proficiencies, participation and identities necessary for successful cross-cultural engagement. (Heyward, 2002) One of the goals or objectives of internationalisation is to give students intercultural competence. A major aspect of the internationalisation of higher education is to prepare staff, faculty and students to function in intercultural contexts, or in Byram's (2011) words, 'to learn to live together'.…”