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Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He is Director of the TENSION research group (diversities and interculturality in education). Dervin also holds several distinguished and visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. Prof. Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility. He has widely published in different languages on identity, the "intercultural" and mobility/migration (over 150 articles and 60 books). His latest books include: Dervin, Sude, Yuan & Chen (2022) Interculturality East and West: Unthink, Dialogue, Rethink (Springer); Dervin & Yuan (2021) Revitalizing Interculturality, Minzu as a Companion (Routledge); Dervin & Jacobsson (2021) Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality (Palgrave MacMillan); Dervin & Simpson (2021) Interculturality and the Political within Education (Routledge). Andreas Jacobsson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Jacobsson's research is primarily focused on intercultural communication education; interculturality and teacher education; early childhood education; intercultural film; intercultural philosophy and epistemology. His latest publications (both with F. Dervin): Teacher Education for Critical and Reflexive Interculturality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Interculturaliser l'interculturel (L'Harmattan).