This book explores the issues faced by foreign language teachers which are caused by the social and political changes of the contemporary world. The authors make recommendations as to how language teachers should face their social and political responsibilities in the education of young people in the modern world.

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK. He has published numerous books, including most recently Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to Practice (edited with Manuela Wagner and Dorie Conlon Perugini, Multilingual Matters, 2017).

Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Intercultural Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. Research interests: the relationships between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective; cultural representations in language textbooks; the intercultural learning of the global citizen; intercultural dialogue and multilingual policies at the international university. Some publications: Language and Culture: Global Flows and Local Complexity (Multilingual Matters 2006); Language and Culture Pedagogy: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm (Multilingual Matters 2007). Researching Identity and Interculturality (co-edited with Fred Dervin) (Routledge 2015), Representations of the World in Language Textbooks (Multilingual Matters 2018).