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‘Taking culture seriously’: implications for intercultural education and training

Ogay, Tania ; Edelmann, Doris

In: European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016, vol. 39, no. 3, p. 388-400

Albeit indispensable to understanding human action, the concept of culture has suffered from excessive enthusiasm in the fields of intercultural education as well as in intercultural teacher training, leading too often to culturalist stances. These excesses of intercultural education and training as well as their contradictory message (between praising and minimising – even ignoring –...

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Switzerland

Ogay, Tania

In: Countries and their cultures, 2001, vol. 4, p. 2138-2148

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Communication Accommodation Theory

Giles, Howard ; Ogay, Tania

In: Explaining communication : contemporary theories and exemplars, 2007, p. 293-310

Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) provides a wide-ranging framework aimed at predicting and explaining many of the adjustments individuals make to create, maintain,or decrease social distance in interaction. It explores the different ways in which we accommodate our communication, our motivations for doing so, and the consequences. CAT addresses interpersonal communication issues, yet...

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Conflict Mediation and Resolution: the contribution of social psychology

Ogay, Tania

In: European Journal of Intercultural studies, 1998, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 269-277

Suivant un mouvement déjà bien développé en Amérique du Nord, des réseaux de médiateurs se mettent en place en Europe, proposant à la communauté civile de résoudre des conflits mineurs par une voie négociée plutôt que par la voie pénale. En présentant les apports de la psychologie sociale pour la médiation des conflits, cet article met en lumière la nécessité d'adopter une...