Journeys of Learning: insights into intercultural adaptation

If intercultural adaptation is anything other than accidental or unconscious then it must involve learning. Thus learning about other cultures, about one’s own culture, about identities and communication, and about likely or actual processes of adaptation and transformation is arguably at the heart of intercultural adaptation. Intercultural adaptation is thus commonly mediated by learning, whether this is in classrooms, training centres, business seminars or in informal social contacts.