COD 2006 - G363

Reading Diverse Cultures in English

Literature lovers. Teachers interested in intercultural issues.

6 sessions, start: 08-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA, Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella, Ms. Susana Gullco Groisman, Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
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Non affiliate
ARS 70.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 08 April 2006 10:00 am 12:00 pm
2 13 May 2006 10:00 am 12:00 pm
3 03 June 2006 10:00 am 12:00 pm
4 12 August 2006 10:00 am 12:00 pm
5 02 September 2006 10:00 am 12:00 pm
6 18 November 2006 10:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.

Flavia Daniela Pittella

Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past 20 years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and Literature. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over nine years. She is a cultural journalist at Radio Mitre and several other media. She has published "40 libros que adoro y no podes dejar de leer". Planeta, 2014. She writes regularly for Infobae Cultura. She is the director of “El tercer lugar: espacio cultural”.

Susana Gullco Groisman

She graduated with distinction in British History and Literature from the Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Dr. Joaquín V. González" and was a lecturer in Contemporary British Literature in her alma mater institution for forty years (having gone through competition to obtain tenure in 1975). She has been a guest speaker at numerous educational centres in our country. She is the former Head of the English Department at the I.S.P."J. V. González" and former President of APIBA. At present she belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre.

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
Literature lovers. Teachers interested in intercultural issues.
- April 8: Florencia Perduca: Otherness from the freshness of a teenage view: “The Other Side of Truth” by Beverley Naidoo, The Face” by Brian Mc Cabe and “The End” by Catherine Johnson. All stories to be downloaded from “Crossing Borders”, http://www.crossingborders-africanwriting.org/writersonwriting/ - May 6: Florencia Perduca: The triumph of gender: “Hell is in bed with Mrs Peprah” by Binyavanga Wainana and “The Swans” by Sara Maitland. All stories to be downloaded from “Crossing Borders”, http://www.crossingborders-africanwriting.org/writersonwriting/ - June 3: Flavia Pittella: Texts from New Writing 12 (the collection is available in the library): “Room 226” by Hilda Bernstein’s ‘One-ah, Two-ah’ by Sukhdev Sandhu ‘According to Mwangi’ by Binyavanga Wainaina - August 5: Susana Groisman: Postcolonialism and the English Canon. Jean Rhys. With special reference to Wide Sargasso Sea. “Overture and Beginners Please” in Sleep it Off Lady, Penguin Books, 1980 (pp. 65-77) - September 2: Susana Groisman: Postcolonialism Revisited. J.M.Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Athol Fugard. Excerpts from several of their works. - October 7: Flavia Pittella: Texts from New Writing 13 (some copies of the collection are available in the library): ‘Twenty Gods and the Pomegranate Seeds’ by Azmeena Ladha -‘Metaphors’, ‘Song’, ‘Batteries in April’, ‘Places’ by Ismail Garba. - November 4: Claudia Ferradas Moi, Migrant Writing: Romesh Gunesekera: “Goat” (from New Writing 13, some copies of the collection are available in the library) and “Carapace”, available at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/britlit/carapace/carapace.shtml
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