COD 2014 - G736

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Voices from the Caribbean

All lovers of literature.

1 sesiones, inicia: 04-Oct

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Ciclo: 2014
Nivel: General
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
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1 04 Octubre 2014 09:00 am 12:00 pm

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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.
All lovers of literature.
We are going to start a journey to the Caribbean through its literature and (re)discover the impact of British Imperialism as experienced by the "colonized". Our focus will be on language both as a means of communication as well as a means of oppression. As Bill Ashcroft points out: "One of the main features of imperial oppression is control over language. [...] Language becomes the medium through which a hierarchical structure of power is perpetuated, and the medium through which conceptions of "truth", "order", and "reality" become established." (The Empire Writes Back, 22002, 7). Interestingly, English became the language of the post-colonial voice to elaborate on appropriation of language, hybridity, centre and margin, sense of belonging and cultural identity. English is the means to help the Caribbean reconstruct an identity of their own which combines their traditions, their colonial experience and their present reality.

- In this reading breakfast, we intend:
- To create a reading community of lovers of literature.
- To develop reading strategies to tackle the ambiguous nature of literary texts.
- To learn about the Caribbean situation within post-colonial contexts.
A selection of poems and short stories:
- "No Dialects Please!" & "The Lesson" by Merle Collins (poems)
- "Listen Mr Oxford Don" By John Agard (poem)
- "Out of Africa" by Grace Nichols (poem)
- "A Far Cry From Africa" Derek Walcott (poem)
- "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley (song)
- "Girl", "Blackness" & "A Small Place" (Extract) by Jamaica Kincaid (stories)
- "Brackley and the Bed" by Sam Selvon (story)
*We will include other literary texts if time allows.
Workshop. Dialogical and interactive approach in which participants will discuss the texts and the topics introduced as well as analyse the different ways in which artists express their concerns.
The selection of poems and short stories.
- Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths & Helen Tiffin. [1989] (22002) The Empire Writes Back. London & New York: Routledge.
- Brathwaite, Edward Kamau. (1995) "Nation Language" in The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft et. al. London & New York: Routledge, 309-13.
- Pope, Rob. (1998) The English Studies Book. London & New York: Routledge.
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