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Myth as Disorientation for Critical Intercultural Pedagogy: From the Kalevala to the Realm of (Digital) Imagination

Myth as Disorientation for Critical Intercultural Pedagogy: From the Kalevala to the Realm of (Digital) Imagination

Hardcover

Series: New Perspectives on Teaching Interculturality

General ReferenceGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1041215355
ISBN13: 9781041215356
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 16 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book presents a game-changing approach to critical intercultural pedagogy by reclaiming myth as a stimulating tool for deliberate and productive disorientation.

Moving beyond archaic relics or simple deconstruction, the author argues that myths, from the Finnish Kalevala to student-created (digital) narratives, are dynamic forces for both epistemic resistance and renaissance today. Readers will discover how myths can disrupt reductive binaries, challenge neoliberal agendas and give space to marginalised epistemologies. Venturing from canonical texts to classroom experiments in co-creation, this book offers an original framework that aims to replace the search for 'cultural truths' or sterile and Western-centric debates between 'essentialists' and 'non-essentialists' with a practice of curious humility.

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