COD 2022 - D738

Webinar - Inclusive English Language Classrooms: Promoting Children's Anti-Bias Attitudes Through Picturebooks

Primary school teachers

1 sesiones, inicia: 04-Jun

Ficha del curso

Ciclo: 2022
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: A distancia
Capacitador/es: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 04 Junio 2022 10:00 am 11:30 am

Capacitador/es

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
Explore contemporary picturebooks which promote young learners' anti-bias attitudes and foster respect and acceptance of differences.

Work with themes which delve around diversity in inclusive classrooms.

Foster learners' self-expression in English.

Bring literature closer to the learners' own world.
Contemporary picturebooks which promote diversity and inclusion.

Themes which evolve around gender (in)equality, gender stereotypes, ethnicity, migration & exile.
The workshop has a hands-on approach. It is highly collaborative and interactive, and if follows an arts-based approach to teaching.

We will discuss, analyse and work with contemporary picturebooks which promote diversity and inclusion.

We will share creative teaching ideas which encourage English language learning and value the power of diversity in inclusive classrooms.
•Picturebooks:

Bryon, N. (Author) & D. Aleola (Illustrator). (2019). Look Up! Random House
---. (2020). Clean Up! Puffin
Ismail, Y. (2016). I’m a Girl! Bloomsbury
Naylor-Ballesteros, C. (2020). The Suitcase. Clarion Books
Vere, Ed. (2018). How to Be a Lion. Penguin
Milner, Kate. (2017). My Name is Not Refugee. Barrington Stoke Ltd
Antony, Steve. (2016). Green Lizards vs Red Rectangles: A story about war and peace. Hachette Children's Group
---. (2020). Green Lizards and Red Rectangles and the Blue Ball. Hachette Children's Group


•Critical Texts:

Banegas, D. L., G. Beacon & M. Pérez Berbain. Eds. (2021). International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT. Palgrave Macmillan
Beacon, G. (2021). Clean Up! Recommended Read. CLELE Journal, 9(1).
Children’s Literature in English Language Education. https://clelejournal.org/
Douglas, S. (Ed.). (2019). Creating an inclusive school environment. British Council.
Egan, Kieran. (2005). An Imaginative Approach to Teaching. Jossey-Bass
Kolb, D. (1984). Experiential Learning as the Science of Learning and Development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
Intercultural Citizenship Education Through Picturebooks In Early English Language Learning (Icepell) https://icepell.eu/
Lazar, Gillian. (2005). Literature and Language Teaching. Cambridge UP
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Lipman D. (1999). Improving Your Storytelling. August House
Maley, A. (1994). Short and Sweet. Short Texts and How to Use Them. Penguin
McRae, J. (1991). Literature with a Small “l”. Macmillan
Mourão, S. (2016). Picturebooks in the Primary EFL Classroom: Authentic Literature for an Authentic Response. CLELEjournal, 4(1), 25-43.
Nodelman, P. (2003). The Pleasures of Children’s Literature. Allyn & Bacon
Phillips, D. Et Al. (1999). Projects with Young Learners. Oxford UP
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Wilson, K. (2008). Drama and Improvisation. Oxford UP
Wright, A. (1995). Storytelling with Children. Series Ed. Alan Maley. Oxford UP
----. (1997). Creating Stories with Children. Oxford UP
Worthy, J. (2005). Readers Theater for Building Fluency. Teaching Resources
21st Century Skills Map. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. https://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/21stCenturySkillsMap/p21_worldlanguagesmap.pdf
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