Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding Placing Cultural Literacy at the Heart of Learning

Introduction. Fiona Maine (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) and Maria Vrikki (University of Nicosia).- 1. What is intercultural education for the 21st century? A comparative review of research. Chrysi Rapanta & Susana Trovão (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).- 2. Conception of Citizenship and Social Responsibility Within The New Understanding of Cultural Literacy: some examples from national educational policy documents analyses. Lilija Duobliene, Sandra Kaire, Irena Zaleskiene (Institute of Educational Sciences, University of Vilnius). – 3. From policy discourse to art education: Challenges of intercultural dialogue as a policy and practice. Tuuli Lähdesmäki and Aino-Kaisa Koistinen (Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland).- 4.  Creative ways to approach the theme of  “cultural diversity” in wordless picturebooks through visual reading and teaching.       Marina Rodostheous-Balafa, Maria Hadjianastasi, Agni Stylianou-Georgiou (University of Nicosia).- 5. Using wordless texts as stimulus for dialogic engagement. Fiona Maine (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge) Beci McCaughran, (Saffron Academy Trust).- 6. Supporting cultural literacy and understanding of European values over the Internet: artifacts and scenarios. Michael Baker, Francoise Detienne, Lucas Bietti, Stephane Safin (for all CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique), Baruch Schwarz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Benzi Slakmon (Tel Aviv University) & Talli Cedar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).- 7. The psychological development of core cultural literacy concepts from childhood to adolescence. Baruch Schwarz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Talli Cedar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ana Remesal (University of Barcelona), Merce Garcia-Mila (University of Barcelona).- 8. Involvement and multiperspectivity - how social cohesion impacts argumentation in small student groups             Benjamin Brummernhenrich & Regina Jucks (Institute for Psychology in Education Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Michael Baker, Lucas Bietti, Françoise Détienne, Stéphane Safin, (CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique).- 9. Engaging teachers in the Cultural Literacy Learning Programme: A reflection on teacher professional development. Riikka Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Maria Evagorou (University of Nicosia), Maria Vrikki (University of Nicosia).-  10. Educating cultural literacy with open educational resources: Chances and challenges of digital teacher collaborations. Mayweg-Paus, Elisabeth (Humboldt University of Berlin), Zimmermann, Maria (Humboldt University of Berlin). 

Fiona Maine is a senior lecturer in literacy education at the University of Cambridge. Her research is focused on the responses of children as they read visual and multimodal texts together. She is the principal investigator and consortium leader for the three-year European project DIALLS which explores the role of dialogue supporting cultural literacy learning for young people in schools.

Maria Vrikki is a postdoctoral researcher working in the field of educational dialogue. Maria has worked on several research projects, earlier at Cambridge and currently in Cyprus, studying the quality of dialogue in the context of the classroom interaction and in the context of collaborative teacher professional development. She has collaborated with key scholars in the field, presented her work at international conferences and published her work in peer-reviewed journals.