14. Cultural Understanding in Danish Schools

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: In the Classroom
6. 1. The International Partnership Project 11
7. 2. Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through Literature 29
8. 3. ‘Up the Hills of Identity’ 44
9. 4. Visual Codes and Modes of Presentation of Television News Broadcasts 60
10. 5. An Approach to Implementing a Cultural Studies Syllabus 77
11. 6. ‘Family life’ and ‘Regional Identity’ – Comparative Studies while Learning French 93
12. 7. ‘It Must Be Cultural Because I Don’t Do It’: Cultural Awareness in Initial TESOL Teacher Education 111
13. Part 2: Beyond the Classroom
14. 8. Virtual Intercultural Competence: A Programme for Japanese Elementary School Students 133
15. 9. Students as Virtual Ethnographers: Exploring the Language Culture-Connection 146
16. 10. Working in Tandem: an Anglo-French Project 162
17. 11. New Tools for Old Tricks: Information and Communication Technology in Teaching British Cultural Studies 176
18. 12. Tandem Learning as an Intercultural Activity 189
19. 13. ‘Why Do Danes Put Their Elderly in Nursing Homes?’ – Working Outside the Classroom with Adult Second Language Learners 203
20. Part 3: Developing Resources
21. 14. Cultural Understanding in Danish Schools 219
22. 15. ‘I Thought My Teacher Fancied Me’ 236
23. 16. British and Bulgarian Christmas Cards: A Research Project for Students 246
24. 17. Study of Landscapes as an Approach to Openness to Others 260
25. Further Reading 277
26. Index 282