ABSTRACT
The main goal of this chapter is to demonstrate how faculty and staff engagement in internationalisation of higher education can be enhanced. The author argues that for this purpose we need to create a space for an open exchange of ideas, which will help to initiate a collaborative discussion across different levels of university structure: management, faculty and administrative staff. This chapter presents an example of creation of such collaborative space based on a Hungarian experience of intercultural training offered for faculty and staff. The author summarizes the lessons learnt from this training experience and makes some recommendations regarding the adoption of intercultural dialogue approach conceptualized by Woodin, Lundgren and Castro (2011) on various levels of implementation of internationalisation. The introduction of such dialogic practice is just a starting point of a longer process of adopting intercultural dialogue approach into professional interaction, which may not necessarily bring immediate results of reaching an agreement, but – in the author’s view – can certainly contribute to better understanding of diverse worldviews.
Keywords: intercultural dialogue approach; intercultural training for faculty and staff; internationalisation of higher education
