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Intercultural Arts

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The term “interculturality” acknowledges the complexity of locations, identities, and modes of expression in a global world and the desire to raise awareness, foster intercul­ tural dialogue, and facilitate understanding across and between cultures. Intercultural arts is a critical component of interculturality. One of many global educational imperatives is to further understanding and engage criti­ cally in what constitutes intercultural arts. Intercultural arts practitioners and re­ searchers play a significant role in this undertaking. A close examination of intercultural arts work and encounters unravels complex relationships among arts disciplines and ways to conceptualize and understand intercultural arts travels. Intercultural arts re­ search sheds new insights into shared cultural and intercultural futures that need to be reimagined and co-created with a sense of ethical obligations, exploration, openness, and reflexivity. This leads to embracing a multiperspective worldview that addresses and cele­ brates the embodied nature of intercultural arts practices across global contexts: a world­ view that is continually constructed, dynamic, and fluid, existing both within and between locations, and that connotes a particular type of ethical educational space.

The study of interculturality in today’s society in general, and in actual intercultural arts practice in particular, is indispensable. For educators who want to engage in researching their professional practice in the “field” of intercultural arts, “field” is a useful agricultur­ al metaphor for the various processes and tools used in researching intercultural arts practice. Social researchers talk, for example, about “entering the field” and “gathering” data as if venturing into the world to harvest material for processing (analysis) before its eventual distribution and consumption by a society hungrily seeking new information to build up its body of knowledge and increase its capacity for growth and improvement. However, for education practitioners researching their own professional practice, and their journey into and focus on “intercultural arts,” it will feel much more fluid and uncer­ tain than being on dry land, and it will require them to locate and address the overlap of practice and ethical agendas in educational research.

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Intercultural Arts

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods in Education

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Oxford University Press

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9780190643751

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