Intercultural Polyphonies Against the ‘Death of Multiculturalism’: Concepts, Practices and Dialogues

Sarmento, Clara

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“…Working in an interdisciplinary space also requires intercultural awareness (Muratovski 2017; Thompson Klein et al 2018) and intercultural competency (Sarmento 2016). In 2018, the Association for Integrative Studies expanded its mission statement to explicitly include cultural diversity as an integral component of interdisciplinarity (Thompson Klein et al 2018).…”

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Integrating Cultural Perspectives into International Interdisciplinary Work

Trebitz

Fennema

Hicks

2021

Contemporary Water Research

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There are well‐established methods for working in interdisciplinary natural resource management settings, but place‐based cultural differences are often poorly integrated into interdisciplinary projects. Intercultural adequacy is necessary to ensure that water management strategies are acceptable within the local contexts of water users. In this study we followed four cohorts of graduate students from Canada, Chile, Cuba, and the United States that participated in an international graduate‐level water resource management course hosted at the Universidad de Concepción in Chile. The North American students participated in post‐experience surveys and interviews to assess changes in their interdisciplinary and intercultural comfort levels. The interviews and survey identified factors that enhanced or detracted from their progress towards integrating disciplinary and cultural differences into their work. Though course material promoted interdisciplinary collaborations across various disciplinary cultures, participants noted that traditional methods of integrating did not adequately bridge differences in place‐based cultural worldviews. We propose a framework developed during the experience to integrate place‐based cultural differences into all phases of the interdisciplinary research and natural resource management processes.

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Integrating Cultural Perspectives into International Interdisciplinary Work

Trebitz

Fennema

Hicks

2021

Contemporary Water Research

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“…Of these three, polyculturality is the one that comes closest to the dominant multicultural view, as it "emphasizes manifold different environments and cultures existing side by side in a sphere of mutual perception" (105). In Sarmento's (2016) view, this kind of polycultural concept of multiculturalism prevails in the Anglo-Saxon world, where social integration aims at social cohesion instead of actual inclusion: "Integrating or assimilating migrants is not part of the same national and societal project as creating a society that offers similar opportunities to everyone" (128). In Europe, however, multiculturalism has a more limited meaning than in North America where multiculturalism has involved discrete groups, such as native peoples, also with territorial claims, whereas in Western Europe the term has been more closely linked to post-immigration politics (Meer and Modood 2016, 31).…”

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Knowledge Production Beyond Local and National Blindspots: Remedying Professional Ocularcentrism of Diversity in Music Teacher Education

Westerlund¹,

Karlsen²

2017

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In this article, we argue that mainstream discourses of diversity in music education are ocularcentric; that is, they provide a one-sided way of understanding diversity that has prevented music educators from seeing our biases. In remedying these local and national professional blindspots, we propose transnational knowledge production, which we explore through our own experiences in an ongoing research project aiming to co-develop intercultural music teacher education through institutional collaboration. We argue for a heterogenous, kaleidoscopic reflexivity towards diversity that takes into account the complexity of intercultural negotiation through knowledge production, including the ethico-political dimensions of such interactions. We believe such reflexivity to be one of the most important goals for music teacher education today.

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Intercultural Polyphonies Against the ‘Death of Multiculturalism’: Concepts, Practices and Dialogues

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Integrating Cultural Perspectives into International Interdisciplinary Work

Integrating Cultural Perspectives into International Interdisciplinary Work

Knowledge Production Beyond Local and National Blindspots: Remedying Professional Ocularcentrism of Diversity in Music Teacher Education

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