Global Issues Showcase Day, IATEFL Brighton

on March 16, 2018 in Brighton 2018

Anastasia Khodakova: Content integration strategies to teach tolerance and cultural diversity

Arifa Rahman: The role of ELT in promoting social justice

Rose Aylett: Tasty taboos: making PARSNIPs palatable for teachers and students alike

Steve Brown: Exploring ELT as emancipatory practice

Maria Estela Ribeiro Jardim Rondon: All we need is love to be better teachers

Katharina Groeblinger: Using culturally sensitive and linguistically adequate language across cultures

Evelyn Strongylakou: Global social issues in a Turkish foundation course

We’re very excited about our Global Issues SIG Showcase day – Tuesday 10th April – and we hope to meet you there too. Here is the line-up:

Anastasia Khodakova (winner of the GISIG Esther Lucas Scholarship)	Workshop	Content integration strategies to teach tolerance and cultural diversity	10:40
Arifa Rahman	Talk	The role of ELT in promoting social justice	11:55
Rose Aylett	Talk	Tasty taboos: making PARSNIPs palatable for teachers and students alike	12:40
Steve Brown	Talk	Exploring ELT as emancipatory practice	14:10
Maria Estela Ribeiro Jardim Rondon	Workshop	All we need is love to be better teachers	14:55
GISIG committee – come and find out more about what GISIG does and is, and help us plan what we do next! GISIG coordinators Julietta Schoenmann and Linda Ruas		IATEFL Global Issues Special Interest Group Open Forum First 40 people to arrive will get a free book!	15:55
Katharina Groeblinger	Talk	Using culturally sensitive and linguistically adequate language across cultures	16:55
Evangelia Strongylakou	Talk	Global social issues in a Turkish foundation course	17:40

Bill Templer April 5, 2018 at 10:40 pm #

This by Anastasia Khodakova, based at Tula State Univ. in Tula Oblast south of Moscow, a very interesting policy paper: http://www.isp.org.pl/uploads/filemanager/AnastasiaKhodakova1.pdf

Here an article by Anastasia published by JALT in Japan in connection with GILE: https://www.jalt-publications.org/files/pdf-article/38.5tlt_sig5.pdf

She also has a short article in the GISIG Newsletter Dec. 2017 pp. 55-56;Teaching global issues to teens in an engaging way https://tinyurl.com/yaf5xh2z

Here some slides, a presentation by Anastasia: Fostering Tolerance and Cultural Awareness through ELT: https://tinyurl.com/y7uq4rjz

TUELTA, the TA in Tula where Anastasia is very active (https://tuelta.nethouse.ru/ ) has a broad project by the same title: Fostering Tolerance and Cultural Awareness Through ELT
https://tuelta.nethouse.ru/products/9539548

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Bill Templer April 16, 2018 at 9:57 pm #

A great poem to go with the theme of tolerance and universal humanity, as touched on by Anastasia and others is Adrian Mitchell, HUMAN BEINGS: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/human-beings-16/ using poetry to teach tolerance

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