What is it about?
This paper is more like a patchwork quilt of interdisciplinary dialogue. The first piece of the quilt is Intercultural Communication and Competence theory and critique, as expressed in Fred Casmir's Third Culture model. The other pieces follow from the critique: Dewey's views on need and doubt, Polanyi's view on tacit Knowledge and the training called the Dialogue Process, which has been developed at MIT by William Isaacs, in California by Ellinor and Gerard, and in Germany by Freeman Dhority. These pieces are put together and followed by a discussion on how they, as a whole, can help us trainers and teachers to improve our training and teaching.
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Why is it important?
It is important because the critique is new and the consequences in practice are significant. It is also important to realize that other forms of training such as the dialogue process and systems can compliment the training and teaching of Intercultural Communication.
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This article is important to me because during my career as an intercultural trainer and teacher I have not had the time and energy to collect my thoughts on what went wrong and what went right all those years. As a retired person, I now have to freedom to reflect on my experience. This critique is a result of this reflection.
Dr. Stephen L. Holmes
Pref. (Retired) Hochschule der Wirtschaft für Management, Mannheim, Germany
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This page is a summary of: Intercultural Communicative Performance and the Body, Contemporary Pragmatism, December 2015, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18758185-01202006.
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