Language And Culture Pedagogy
Subtitle: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education)
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: March 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781853599590
Subjects: Language teaching theory & methods; Education; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Study & Teaching; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; Language and culture; Language and languages; Multicultural education; Study and teaching
Description: How can we envisage a new language and culture pedagogy that breaks with the tradition of viewing language as part of a closed national universe of culture, history, people and mentality, and begins to see itself as a field operating in a complex and dynamic world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas? Initially, to understand the field and its current challenges, we must understand its history, and the first part of this book contains a critical analysis of the history of the international field of culture teaching - the first historical treatment of this field ever written. The next part of the book focuses on how we can build a framework for a new transnational language and culture pedagogy that aims at the education of world citizens whose intercultural competence includes critical multilingual and multicultural awareness in a global perspective. -- Publisher description.