From the multilingual to the intercultural in the current German political, academic and pedagogical discourse

摘要

The words multicultural and intercultural are not universal signifiers, as Guilherme and Dietz recently stated in this Journal (2015 Vol.10/ 1). This article therefore attempts to be culturally conscious scholarship, and draws a picture of the connotations of these expressions in the recent academic and public/political and discourse in Germany in the mirror of the recent intercultural program developments in German academia. Without attempting to provide a concise analysis of the multi-faceted scholarship and policy papers, the article focuses on the interconnectedness and the discrepancy between the political and the academic discourse. The paper points toward a possible integration of these two areas by suggesting a pedagogical approach that explains intercultural through the arts.