Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching

This book maps the discursive terrain and potential of person to person peacebuilding as it intersects with, and is embedded in, intercultural communication. It foregrounds the voices and discourses of participants who came together in the virtual intercultural borderlands of online exchange through a service-learning project with a non-profit organization which focused on peace through education in Afghanistan, primarily through English language tutoring. By analyzing the voices and perspectives of US-based tutors who are pre-service teachers of English as an Additional Language, in equal measure with the voices and perspectives of adult English learners in Afghanistan, the authors examine how intercultural interactants begin to work as peacebuilders. The participants describe the profound transformations they undergo throughout their intercultural tutoring journeys, transformations which evidence three dimensions of person to person peacebuilding: the personal, relational and structural. Inspired by these voices, the book further explores ways teachers and teacher educators of language and intercultural communication can more deliberately leverage the affordance of peacebuilding, whether face to face or in the virtual intercultural borderlands of online exchange.

Auteur

Amy Jo Minett is Associate Professor of English/Graduate TESOL at Salem State University, USA. Her research interests include peacebuilding through language teaching, English language education in conflict countries, and the role of ELT in building open societies.

Contenu

Preface and Dedication: With and Without

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Understandings of Peacebuilding and Intercultural Communication

Chapter 3: Context(s)

Chapter 4: Person to Person Peacebuilding at the Personal Level

Chapter 5: The Relational Dimension of Person to Person Peacebuilding

Chapter 6: Person to Person Peacebuilding at the Structural Level

Chapter 7: Fostering Person to Person Peacebuilding While Teaching Language and Intercultural Communication

Afterword: August 2021

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