Dialogical Self as a Prerequisite for Intercultural Adult Education. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schellhammer, Barbara
• Is Part Of: Journal of constructivist psychology. Volume 31:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 6
• Page End: 21
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Personal construct theory -- Periodicals; Constructivism (Psychology) -- Periodicals; 150.1985
• DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2017.1298486
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1072-0537

Abstract

Abstract : Most endeavors in adult education that seek to teach intercultural competence focus on techniques and skills that lie outside of self: communication models, certain theoretical definitions of culture, and practices of how to manage diversity. Underlying such approaches is a rather robust understanding of self based on the Western traditional notion of monological, encapsulated consciousness. Yet understanding otherness on the outside has to start within.