COD 2017 - P214

Activities with Picturebooks to Foster Children's Intercultural Competence

Primary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 19-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 400.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 19 April 2017 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cecilia Pena Koessler

Graduate Teacher of English at Primary level and at Secondary level from I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández." Postgraduate course in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández." MA in Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham) and Medieval Studies Master's degree student (UBA). She teaches English Literature I and Children and YA 's Literature at I.S.P. J.V.González and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández" Teacher Training Colleges and IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. She has participated in research projects on Intercultural Awareness and Border Thery. She has co-authored "Little Stars" pre-primary series and "Our Stories" primary series for Pearson and designed creative writing and literature materials for other series (Pearson and Macmillan).
Primary school teachers
Teachers will learn:
- To identify those picture books that contribute to develop intercultural communicative competence with children
- To explore how picture books encourage children to become more aware of otherness while strengthening their own cultural identity
- To analyze how the aesthetics of postmodern picture books invite students to foster positive attitudes towards other cultures such as interest, empathy and tolerance
- To experience the wide range of intercultural activities that can be carried out with picture books
By means of a deep analysis of the language and art of picturebooks, teachers will learn to discover and interpret both how writer and artist foster the young people’s intercultural competence
This course will be delivered in a workshop mode for participants to enrich their understanding of the texts with contributions from the group. As the aim of this course is that participants have a hands-on experience, picture books with an intercultural theme will be introduced for teachers to use in their classes. Teachers are invited to bring the picture books they use at school to this workshop.
- Pantaleo, S. and Sipe, L. (2007) "Exploring Peritextual Elements in Picturebooks" International Reading Association Conference.
- Reynolds, K. (2007) Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic transformations in Juvenile Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
-Corbett, J. (2008). An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching. Clevedon: Muyltilingual Matters.
-Byram, M. & Fleming, M. (eds.) (1998). Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-Byram, M., Nichols, A. & Strevens, D. (eds)(2001). Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
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