Language Culture and Curriculum
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: Eoghan Mac Aogain (St Patrick's College)
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Volume: 14 Number: 3 Page: 224–234
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Irish Images of Germany: Using Literary Texts in Intercultural Learning
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Dore Fischer
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Ireland is currently changing rapidly from a country of high emigration to a country of high immigration. An awareness of cultural diversity, and how to live with it, has become an important issue. This
paper takes a brief look at the need for intercultural learning within the Irish context. Concepts of 'culture' and cultural conditioning are discussed and aims and objectives for intercultural learning
are suggested. As many accounts of intercultural contacts come from novelists, poets and playwrights, the article looks at the part literature, in particular modern Irish prose fiction and German migrant
literature, can play in the intercultural learning experience. The paper concludes with the description of a module which aims to develop an intercultural competence and includes the study of literary fiction.
© Multilingual Matters 2001
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