COD 2011 - P119

Help Children Develop Intercultural Awareness Through Literature

Primary school teachers.

1 sessions, start: 16-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 80.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 16 September 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Griselda Beacon

Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator and specializes in literature & art in English. Her approach follows pedagogies of creativity and of inclusion. Griselda 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, 2019), an English coursebook series tailor-made for Argentina and co-editor of the books International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021) and Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).

Griselda has taught Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at Teacher Training Colleges in Buenos Aires. At present, she works as a consultant for educational institutions, lectures in American Literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires –UBA and is a consultant trainer at NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) in the UK. Passionate about art in education, Griselda shares literature with a creative twist with all learners and visits schools for storytelling sessions.
Primary school teachers.
- Analyse literary texts from an intercultural perspective to see how a given text creates cultural meaning, individual voice and cultural identity.
- Think, plan and practice a variety of classroom activities to help teachers and children:
- Develop a positive attitude, of curiosity and openness, towards other cultures.
- Develop a willingness to put themselves in the position of the "Other" so as to become more sensitive and tolerant to other cultural practices and perspectives.
- Develop a knowledge about one’s own culture and (an)other culture(s).
We are going to read and work with the following texts:
- Fish is a Fish by Leo Lionni (short story).
- Mexican American rituals: Family gathering to prepare "tamales"(story).
- "My friend in school" By Tony Medina (poem).
- "The Planet of Mars" By Shel Silverstein (poem).
- "Talking Turkeys" by Benjamin Zephaniah (poem).
- "The Computer’s First Christmas Card" by Edwin Morgan (poem).
We will include other literary texts if time allows.
Workshop: Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss and apply concepts, brainstorm creative teaching ideas and develop supporting teaching materials.
- Barboni, S., Beacon, G. & Porto, M. (2008) Diseño Curricular de la Dirección Provincial de Educación Primaria, Subsecretaría de Educación, Dirección General de Cultura y Educación del Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.
- Croft, S. & Myers, R. (2004) Exploring Language & Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP.
- Egan, K. (2005) An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- Grondona White, C. y Moyano, G. (2004) Storytelling in the EFL Classroom. Words on Words – UK Literature for children and teenagers. British Council Argentina.
- Lazar, G. (2005) Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP.
- Maley, A. (1994) Short and Sweet. Short Texts and How to Use Them. Londres: Penguin.
- McRae, J. (1991) Literature with a Small “l”. Londres: Macmillan.
- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. Londres: Routledge.
(1998) The English Studies Book. London & New York, Routledge.
- Worthy, J. (2005) Readers Theater for Building Fluency. New York: Teaching Resources.
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