Academic Hyper-mobility and Cosmopolitan Dispositions

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ID12634157
AutoresLiudmila Kirpitchenko (autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume11
Fascículo3
Páginas1-13
Data de publicação2011-11-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1404-1634 • E-ISSN: 1404-1634
EditoraInternational Collaboration for Research and Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.36923/jicc.v11i3.537
OpenAlexW99208979
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas17

Academic hyper-mobility provides a chance for exploring intensified intercultural communication encounters and the ever growing spirit of cosmopolitanism. This article hypothesises that in the modern conditions of academic hyper-mobility, cultural patterns play a significant part in framing the processes of communication. The purpose of this research is to examine the role of two differing cultural patterns – collectivism and individualism - in everyday situations of intercultural communication. Qualitative data are drawn from fifteen in-depth interviews conducted among mobile academics from Eastern Europe at the European University Institute in Italy. Several aspects of intercultural dialogue were found to be culturally significant for collectivists and individualists, including: in-group membership, expression of the self, cultural values, and cosmopolitan dispositions. It is a central argument of this article that cosmopolitan dispositions, which include openness to cultural diversity and mutual willingness to engage with new cultural patterns, are critical prerequisites to effective intercultural knowledge transfer and creation of knowledge

Academic Mobility · Argument (complex analysis · Collectivism · Cosmopolitanism · Cultural diversity · Cultural group selection · Ethnic group · Framing (construction · Geography · Higher education · Individualism · Intercultural communication · Openness to experience · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology · Social Psychology