COD 2021 - D448

Webinar - Cultural Programme - Reading and Media Breakfasts: Literature and Intersectional Perspectives

All lovers of reading literature

1 sessions, start: 15-May

Course detail

Year: 2021
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 1800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 1800.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 15 May 2021 10:00 am 11:30 am

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in ELT. Her interests include literature, young learners, CLIL, creativity and critical interculturality. Passionate about art in education, Griselda carries out projects with literature, storytelling, drama, visual arts and creative writing to foster self-expression and creativity in diverse and inclusive English language classrooms. She holds an MA in Literature and Foreign Language Teaching from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has been working in the field of teacher education and Primary curriculum development for over 20 years. She has been sharing her experience as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer in Latin America, Europe, Africa & Asia. She is a co-author of Together (Oxford UP, 2018), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the book International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021). Griselda has taught Children’s & Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques in the English Class and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. She regularly works as a consultant for educational institutions, such as language schools (NILE - Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK, ELT publishers (Oxford University Press) & libraries. At present, she lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA. In her spare time, Griselda loves dancing, getting lost in bookstores and taking drama classes.
All lovers of reading literature
We will discuss the concept of intersectionality, the overlapping of social identities, and how it articulates with poems and stories. We will focus on the role of literature to develop social consciousness and discuss how an intersectional perspective contributes to dig deep into the texts to find interrelated themes which connect gender, race, ethnicity and social class, among others.

In this reading breakfast, we intend:

▪To continue creating a reading community of lovers of literature.

▪To continue developing reading strategies to tackle the ambiguous nature of literary texts.

▪To learn about and explore intersectionality.
“Ain’t I a Woman?” (poem by Sojourner Truth)

“Dry September” (short story by William Faulkner)

“The Test” (short story by Angelica Gibbs)

“Afro Latina” (poem by Elizabeth Acevedo) – watch video

“Telephone Conversation” (poem by Wole Soyinka)

“Listen Mr Oxford Don” (poem by John Agard)

“In this Place (An American Lyric)” by Amanda Gorman – watch video
Workshop. Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss the texts, the topics introduced and the role of intersectionality.
Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths G., Tiffin H. (22002) The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures. Londres: Routledge (Introduction)
- - - . (1995) The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, London: Routledge
Collins, P.H. (2015). Intersectionality's Definitional Dilemmas. Annual Review of Sociology, 41(1), 1-20.
Crenshaw K.W. (1991). Mapping the margins: intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Rev., 43, 1241–1299.
hooks, b. (2000) Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. Sound End Press.
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