COD 2014 - S404

Nervous Conditions: IGCSE 2014- 2015

IGCSE Literature teachers

1 sesiones, inicia: 25-Abr

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Ciclo: 2014
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 25 Abril 2014 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo

Leonardo graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. He is doing his MA degree in Literary Studies at UBA. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary English Literature for two years and one in English Culture and Civilization at UNLP. He has participated in several academic conferences. For the past fifteen years, he has taught ESL and FLE classes for IGCSE and AS/A English Language and Literature in English at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell, and he has prepared IB candidates at St. George's, Quilmes and at Southern International School. For the past three years, he has developed digital material for an online educational platform.
IGCSE Literature teachers
To discuss the value of introducing contextual information to our students.
- To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of a text marked by feminism, (pos)colonialism and some historical issues.
- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading and interpretations of the text.
- To reflect upon the importance of cultural awareness.
- Colonialism and Rhodesia.
- Progress and the white English "other".
- Local colour and language.
- Gender inequality.
- Intertextual references.
- Presentation and discussion of how to deal with the novel's issues.
- Participants will be presented with material to arouse students' interest and to facilitate their understanding of the novel.
- Discussion of possible ways to enhance students’ production for IGCSE Literature examination.
- IGCSE syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk
- An attempt in the feminist tradition by Rosemary Moyana in Zambezia, vol.21. Journal of the University of Zimbabwe, 1994
- Fighting the Good Fight: What Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions Says About Language and Power by Gilian Gorle. Yearbook of English Studies 27, 1997.
- Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. by Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne. Greenwood Press,Westport, CT: 1998
- http://homepage.eircom.net/~frankhand/index.html
- http://www.postcolonialweb.org/zimbabwe/td/dangarembgaov.html
- http://www.percontra.net/10tsitsi.htm
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