Abstract
Exploring multicultural communication brings into focus contexts of conflict and friendship, and one has to strike a balance in having one’s sense of identity but understand different people with different patterns of identity. This chapter describes some work on transformative education that was done in the classroom, where tolerance and empathy played a key role. Contemplative education in the classroom helps students to ‘loosen their identity’. To the analytic and rationalistic techniques used in the classroom we need to add a deep, experiential, self-reflexive dimension where they learn to walk in the shoes of others, suspend judgement and engage in a mature conversation.
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Judith Martin, Thomas Nakayama and Lisa Fores, (eds.), 1998, A Dialectical Approach to Intercultural Communication, Readings in Cultural Contexts, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, pp. 5–20.
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Sn 4.11.
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Jack Mezirow, 1991, Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning, San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
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Robert Barnet and Charlotte Barnet, 2011, Mindfulness, Openness to Transformative Learning, Oxford Handbook of Reciprocal and Adult Learning, New York: Oxford University Press.
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Martin et al. (1998, p. 56).
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Ibid.
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Philip Cam, 2011, ‘Education for Tolerance’, in Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Kevin White (eds), Religious Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, p. 55.
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Cam (2011, p. 63).
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Barnet, Robert W.B., and Charlotte Barnet. 2011. Mindfulness, Openness to Transformative Learning. In Oxford Handbook of Reciprocal and Adult Learning. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cam, Philip. 2011. Education for Tolerance. In Religious Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum, ed. Elizabeth Burns Coleman and White Kevin. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Martin, Judith N., Thomas K. Nakayama, and Fores Lisa. 1998. Readings in Cultural Contexts. In A Dialectical Approach to Intercultural Communication, 5–20. Mountain View: Mayfield.
Mezirow, J. 1991. Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
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de Silva, P. (2017). Exploring Multiculturalism. In: The Psychology of Buddhism in Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69029-2_6
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