Interculturality in Institutions : Symbols, Practices and Identities Paperback / softback
Edited by Marilena Fatigante, Cristina Zucchermaglio, Francesca Alby
Part of the Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book provides qualitative analyses of intercultural sense making in a variety of institutional contexts.
It relies on the assumption that in an increasingly culturally diverse world, individuals often enter contexts that have communal, historically determined and stable sets of values, norms and expected identities, with little cultural compass to find their bearings in them.
The book goes beyond interpreting differences in people’s ethnic or linguistic roots and discusses instead people’s interpretive efforts to navigate different sociocultural situations.
The contributors examine such situations in educational, organizational, medical and community settings and look at how participants with different levels of sociocultural competences (such as, migrant patients, migrant adult learners, children) try to cope with institutional constraints and expectations, how they understand symbols, practices and identities in institutional contexts,and how their creative adjustments come to light.
This book provides insights from the fields of psychology, education, anthropology and linguistics, and is for a wide readership interested in cultural meaning-making.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:311 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; VI, 311 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:26/11/2023
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- ISBN:9783031126284
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:311 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; VI, 311 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:26/11/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9783031126284
