Our Role as Intercultural Scholars, Practitioners, Activists, and Teachers in Addressing These Key Intercultural Urgencies, Issues, and Challenges

What Is Intercultural Sustainability? A First Exploration of Linkages Between Culture and Sustainability in Intercultural Research

“…This concern is supported for example by Oetzel in the discussion summed up by Alexander et al (2014b) as well as by Yin in the same discussion (both JIIC). Additional exemplary mentions can be found in Dutta and Dutta (2013) (JIIC) as well as in Busbridge and Winarnita (2015) (JIS).…”

“…The analysis has been based on three assumptions: On the one hand, some authors (e.g. Alexander et al, 2014a;Alexander et al, 2014b) warn that sustainable intercultural understanding will be a pre-condition for a general and global sustainable development of societies. From this, there is a growing responsibility on intercultural research to consciously analyse and focus on this potential which currently is neglected by societies as well as by academia.…”

“…Alexander et al, 2014a;Alexander et al, 2014b). This article identifies three different notions of sustainability related to culture in contemporary intercultural research: Egocentric uses focus on one single culture or organization.…”

An English Language Teacher's Pedagogical Response to Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

“…And yet I occupy a place (Alexander et al. , 70) that demands my critical engagement and cessation of normative discourse.…”

Sources Of Foreign Language Education Content In The Information Age

“…So, in addition to the goal of proficiency in the foreign language as means of intercultural and interpersonal communication (as enshrined in the Federal state educational standard of the Russian Federation) (Volkova, 2015), the skill of using a foreign language as a tool of cognitive activity is becoming increasingly important. (Alexander, 2014;Babadogan, 2010) This involves using a foreign language to search for information in different sources, its analysis, evaluation, generalization, and further use of the processed information to solve practical, applied, and research problems at different levels. It indicates an increase in the meta-subject aspect of learning a foreign language.…”