Critical Pedagogy, as a movement and an intellectual field, engages with the political and ideological questions raised in educational practices. In this book the respective fields of languages, intercultural communication and critical pedagogy are brought into dialogue, dissent and reflection.

Alison Phipps is senior lecturer and Director of the Graduate School for Arts and Humanities at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches anthropology and languages. Her books include Acting Identities (2000), and Contemporary German Cultural Studies (2002). She is associate editor of the journal Tourism and Cultural Change.

Manuela Guilherme is a researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, where she co-ordinates international and national projects in the area of Intercultural Education and teaches seminars at postgraduate level. She has recently published Critical Citizens for an Intercultural World with Multilingual Matters.