Zhenan Tong
Department: Graduate School of Education
Discipline: Education
Project Summary
Research Title
Implementing the Rabat Commitment: The Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) as a Pedagogical Framework in a Chinese Educational Context.
Research Summary
My study examines the three key stakeholders in the development of intercultural education (including intercultural competences and ICC): policy, theory, and practice (pedagogy) and the extent to which ICC can be developed and implemented within Chinese higher education to the realization of stated political goals at both international and national levels.
Through policy, I examine and discuss UN, UNESCO, and Chinese Government agendas for developing intercultural education.
Through theory, I examine prevailing Anglophone paradigms of intercultural competence and ICC, as well as current Chinese understandings and assumptions.
Through practice and via an exploratory-triangulation research design, I examine how ICC is currently understood and implemented at the practical level within a Chinese University.
Supervisory Team
First Supervisor
Dr Gabriela Meier
Second Supervisor
Dr Justin Dillon
Wider Research Interests
Intercultural Education
Education Policy
EFL Education in Chinese Contexts
Bilingual and Multilingual Education
International Relations and Diplomatic Studies
United Nations, Peacekeeping, and Disarmament