TY - JOUR
T1 - Students’ agency for critical interculturalism
T2 - from intercultural responsibility to informal leadership
AU - Sorkos, Georgios
AU - Hajisoteriou, Christina
AU - Angelides, Panayiotis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Students’ agency in decision-making processes has aroused the interest of scholars in the field. However, little attention has been paid to how students themselves critically reflect on their roles when interacting in intercultural school environments. This study uses qualitative data from secondary school students in Greece to describe the ways in which they critically challenge structural and institutional inequalities and move away from practices akin to functional interculturalism. Our findings offer new evidence suggesting that the more mature students’ intercultural thinking is, the more intercultural responsibility they develop. However, as they become more interculturally responsible, they commence informal leadership roles that make them demand a world free from injustices while focusing on how to combat them.
AB - Students’ agency in decision-making processes has aroused the interest of scholars in the field. However, little attention has been paid to how students themselves critically reflect on their roles when interacting in intercultural school environments. This study uses qualitative data from secondary school students in Greece to describe the ways in which they critically challenge structural and institutional inequalities and move away from practices akin to functional interculturalism. Our findings offer new evidence suggesting that the more mature students’ intercultural thinking is, the more intercultural responsibility they develop. However, as they become more interculturally responsible, they commence informal leadership roles that make them demand a world free from injustices while focusing on how to combat them.
KW - critical interculturalism
KW - functional interculturalism
KW - intercultural responsibility
KW - Student agency
KW - student leadership
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85181466394&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03054985.2023.2296091
DO - 10.1080/03054985.2023.2296091
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85181466394
SN - 0305-4985
JO - Oxford Review of Education
JF - Oxford Review of Education
ER -