Intercultural Competence Past, Present, and Future: Respecting the Past, Problems in the Present, and Forging the Future

Vander Tavares is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Høgskolen i Innlandet (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences). His major research interests include internationalisation of higher education and the international student experience; the intersection of language, culture, and identity; and second language acquisition. He is the editor of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on International Student Experience in Canadian Higher Education (IGI Global) and the author of International Students in Higher Education: Language, Identity and Experience from a Holistic Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books). Email: vander.tavares@inn.no