Tag: Multiple Identities

Comics and Multiple Cultural Identities

Intercultural Pedagogy

Han, Dabin. (21 November 2022). COMIC: Korean American books inspired one artist to redefine her identity. National Public Radio.

In a story told entirely through comics, Davin Han describes her own identity journey she has followed, as a Korean American, moving between Korean, Korean-ish and American. She shows how important it was to her to find books by other Korean Americans. Among other insights:

What I’m learning is that I can’t choose between being Korean or American because they are not separable identities.

It is a relief to hear complicated answers to a question that has always been posed so casually.

This story would make a particularly accessible classroom resource for teaching about multiple identities. See also KC22: Cultural identity, KC105: Acculturation, and KC62: Diaspora for related discussions.

 

 

CFP Education and Migration: Language Foregrounded (UK)

EDUCATION AND MIGRATION: LANGUAGE FOREGROUNDED
21-23 (Friday – Sunday) October, 2016,
School of Education, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

Keynote Speakers:
Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, UK
Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK
Martha Bigelow, University of Minnesota, USA

Plenary panels:
The conference will include five plenary panels, within which the following invited researchers/practitioners will each lead a panel (supported by two other experts), on the themes below.

1. Languages for resilience: Languages education in the context of the Syrian crisis – Mike Solly (British Council)

2. Migration and schools: Policies for primary and secondary education in Europe – George Androulakis (University of Thessaly, Vólos)

3. Children’s multilingual identities, language brokering, opportunities for multiple literacies; issues concerning ESOL/languages and mainstreaming – Francis Giampapa (University of Bristol)

4. Multimodality: The role of the creative arts in language learning – Pam Burnard (University of Cambridge)

5. Communities and education; translanguaging in communities; community schools – Angela Creese (University of Birmingham)

Call for papers and panel proposals:
The conference invites papers and panels on research, pedagogies (multilingual, multimodal, multisensory, intercultural), policy development, and teacher practice concerning the opportunities and possibilities for multiple languages. Papers and panels may also address the following (and related) themes:
· Multilingualism in NGO education contexts
· Policy and language advocacy for multiple languages in the classroom
· Community schools and translanguaging in communities
· Teacher education in multilingual classrooms
· Languages and the intercultural citizen
· Modern foreign languages and multiple languages in schools—affordances and possibilities
· Languages in research, policy, teacher education
· Multimodal pedagogies for supporting language learning
· Critical and intercultural pedagogies
· Languages in contexts of discrimination, trauma, and exclusion: Implications for educational psychology and counselling; identity; multiple language literacies

Please see the conference website for further details, including how to submit proposals. The submission deadline is 1 June 2016.

Pre-conference doctoral workshop on researching multilingually:
There will also be a free pre-conference workshop for PhD students prior to the conference on Thursday 20th October 2016. The purpose of the workshop is to learn about and share experiences of how doctoral researchers draw on their linguistic resources (and those of others) when researching multilingually, and to explore the possibilities and complexities of such approaches. Please see the attached conference information for further details and how to register.

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