COD 2015 - G784

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: African American Voices

All lovers of reading Literature

1 sesiones, inicia: 14-Nov

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Ciclo: 2015
Nivel: General
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Mag. Griselda Beacon MA
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1 14 Noviembre 2015 09:00 am 12:00 pm

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.
All lovers of reading Literature
We are going to start a journey to the African American world through its literature and (re)discover the impact of the institution of slavery as experienced by the blacks. Our focus will be on ethnicity and language both as construction of cultural identity and as a means of oppression. Through the reading of these texts we will delve into worlds that are hybrid, marginal and ethnically marked.
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 African American situation after the abolition of slavery.
A selection of poems, songs and short stories:
- Song Strange Fruit
- “Recitatif” Short story by Toni Morrison
- “Dry September” Short story by William Faulkner
- A Seleccion of poems by Maya Angelou, Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes & Gwendolyn Brooks
*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.
Pope, Rob. (1998) The English Studies Book. London & New York: Routledge.
Beacon, Griselda. (2004) “African-Americans and Racial Prejudice in the USA.” En
Reflexiones sobre cultura estadounidense. Eds. Rolando Costa Picazo y Armando
Capalbo. Buenos Aires: BMPress, 153-158.
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