COD 2010 - G574

Cultural Programme: Scottish Voices in and on Argentina

Secondary school teachers of English Language and Literature – Literature lovers.

1 sessions, start: 20-Oct

Course detail

Year: 2010
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
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Non affiliate
Free of charge

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 20 October 2010 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

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).
Secondary school teachers of English Language and Literature – Literature lovers.

To get participants to:
- Become acquainted with the history of the Scots in Argentina.
- Discover texts written by Scottish visitors and settlers about our own country.
- Analyse the transculturation process evidenced in their writing.
- Discuss implications for the development of intercultural awareness.
- The Parish Robertson brothers and the Monte Grande colony
- The arrival of the Symmetry.
- Travellers' journals.
- Jane Robson's memoirs.
- The works of Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham.
- Poems by John Burnside.
- Instances of transculturation.
- Potential to develop intercultural awareness.
The facilitator will present historical details concerning the Scottish community on Argentina. Participants will then read texts produced by Scottish visitors and settlers and will be invited to reflect on the possibilities they offer for intercultural awareness, encouraging reflection on cultural encounters and the construction of Argentine identities.
- Graham- Yooll, A. (1999) The Forgotten Colony. Buenos Aires: L.O.L.A.

- Stewart, I. A. D. (ed.) (2000). From Caledonia to the Pampas. East Linton, East Lothian, UK: Tuckwell Press.
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