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Author Bio

Maria Stergiou completed her undergraduate studies at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France in French Literature and Philosophy where she focused upon Simone de Beauvoir's work and attended lectures given by Jacques Derrida. She graduated in art history, anthropology and linguistics at the University of Zurich and earned a Master of Advanced Studies degree in funding policies and interdisciplinarity of art and science research from University of Basel. She speaks at international conferences and has published articles on intercultural competence in higher education. At the Swiss National Agency for Exchange in education she holds various leadership roles. She took her first ontological inquiry course in 1998 and has been practicing it in all aspects of her life ever since. She also co-leads the “Being A Leader” Course, a leadership course based on the ontological-phenomenological model.

Keywords

Intercultural Communication Competence, Internationalization of Higher education, Ontological Inquiry, Global Citizenship

Abstract

Beyond what we have discovered through research and what we claim to know about learning and teaching intercultural global competencies, I advocate for the inclusion of a pedagogy of ontological inquiry. Informed by my work as the International Cooperation Advisor for Higher Education at the Swiss Agency for Exchange and Cooperation, as well as my lived experience with ontological inquiry for more than 25 years, here I illuminate the access an ontological pedagogy provides to the realization of interculturalcommunication competencies as a foundation for peace.

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