Person: Bueno-Alastuey, María Camino
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Bueno-Alastuey
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María Camino
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Ciencias humanas y de la educación
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I-COMMUNITAS. Institute for Advanced Social Research
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Publication Open Access Reimagining multicultural education: needed transformations at the epistemological level(IGI Global, 2021) R'boul, Hamza; Bueno-Alastuey, María Camino; Institute for Advanced Social Research - ICOMMUNITASMulticultural education has actively endeavored to undermine inequalities and imbalances by offering pedagogical frameworks for accounting for and managing cultural diversity. However, foundational literature on multicultural education seems to be dominated by Western scholars, mainly American. This assumption is not in alignment with the objectives of critical education which seeks to stymie power imbalances and grant visibility to less popular individuals along with their cultures, understandings, and perspectives. That is why it is important to ask questions about whether multicultural education has exhibited any signs of seeking to stymie the hegemony of Western episteme in terms of its theory and praxis. This chapter argues that it is necessary to include other epistemologies in multicultural education theory and praxis in order to realize global cognitive justice. The main aim is to make a case for the possibility of further developing multicultural education by integrating other knowledges and ways of knowing.Publication Open Access English language learning as intercultural experience: promoting a critical understanding of intercultural relations(IGI Global, 2021) R'boul, Hamza; Bueno-Alastuey, María Camino; Institute for Advanced Social Research - ICOMMUNITASTeaching English in higher education entails additional factors and considerations that exemplify the complexity of accounting for the diverse population in modern higher education institutions. In particular, the increasing flow of international students and the employment demands of functioning in multicultural contexts render helping students to develop a critical understating of intercultural relations an important aspect of English language teaching. With the increasing adoption of English as a medium of instruction and its use as a lingua franca in intercultural communication, it is important to structure English education in a way that accounts for intercultural relations both in and outside the university. In addition to the postmodern conceptualizations of interculturality that emphasize the fluidity of culture, language and identity intercultural relations are characterized by power imbalances. That is why this chapter makes a case for the necessity of considering sociopolitical realities in intercultural English language teaching in higher education.