Since any potential for interculturalisation in the context of study abroad involves an accumulation of capacities, developed via a range of pedagogic factors, time must be a key consideration in this analysis. While the experience of time is seen as a human universal, the ways in which that experience is measured, perceived, and conceptualised can vary widely from culture to culture. Outlining several dimensions of time, this chapter argues that the way these are encountered in-country constitute opportunities for intercultural development. A temporal lens allows us to examine the plurality of times within the in-country experience, as lived by participants, and the potential of these to exert pedagogic force. This chapter explores the temporality of the in-country experience and its relation to interculturalisation in the following ways: firstly, the intersection of multiple cultural temporal relations, including ‘Indonesian time’, and embodied rhythms and tempos experienced by participants; secondly, the cumulative nature of interculturalisation, which considers study abroad as part of a broader trajectory, gathering both past and future into the time spent in-country; and finally, the characteristics of particular ‘moments’ of pedagogic poignancy that might occur in-country.

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Temporality and Interculturalisation

  • Kate Naidu

摘要

Since any potential for interculturalisation in the context of study abroad involves an accumulation of capacities, developed via a range of pedagogic factors, time must be a key consideration in this analysis. While the experience of time is seen as a human universal, the ways in which that experience is measured, perceived, and conceptualised can vary widely from culture to culture. Outlining several dimensions of time, this chapter argues that the way these are encountered in-country constitute opportunities for intercultural development. A temporal lens allows us to examine the plurality of times within the in-country experience, as lived by participants, and the potential of these to exert pedagogic force. This chapter explores the temporality of the in-country experience and its relation to interculturalisation in the following ways: firstly, the intersection of multiple cultural temporal relations, including ‘Indonesian time’, and embodied rhythms and tempos experienced by participants; secondly, the cumulative nature of interculturalisation, which considers study abroad as part of a broader trajectory, gathering both past and future into the time spent in-country; and finally, the characteristics of particular ‘moments’ of pedagogic poignancy that might occur in-country.