In engaging with literary texts, readers participate in fictional worlds that imagine and (re)negotiate social, cultural and political lives in manifold, vivid ways. Genres such as dystopian fiction, young adult drama or political poetry take up current pressing- sometimes highly controversial- issues and explore (potential) sociopolitical realities and futures, ranging from desirable to utterly daunting. Exploring such texts in FL education provides a promising stimulus to reflect on and work towards democratic culture, sociocultural diversity and individual agency- alongside learning a foreign language. Here, the Council of Europe's 2018 Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture presents a timely conceptual basis on which teachers can ground such engagement and inquiry. This symposium interrelates current trajectories in FL learning, literature teaching and democratic education. As such, we are interested in the ways learners can experience fictional encounters with themes such as participation, equality and visibility of individual identities, groups or communities. We therefore invite conceptual and empirical contributions related to topic- and genre-related aspects of literature, selecting suitable texts for democratic education, classroom projects and experiences of using literature for democratic education, and the formulation/application of literary competences relevant to sociopolitical inquiries based on diverse literatures.
In engaging with literary texts, readers participate in fictional worlds that imagine and (re)negotiate social, cultural and political lives in manifold, vivid ways. Genres such as dystopian fiction, young adult drama or political poetry take up current pressing- sometimes highly controversial- issues and explore (potential) sociopolitical realities and futures, ranging from desirable to utterly daunting. Exploring such texts in FL education provides a promising stimulus to reflect on and work towards democratic culture, sociocultural diversity and individual agency- alongside learning a foreign language. Here, the Council of Europe's 2018 Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture presents a timely conceptual basis on which teachers can ground such engagement and inquiry. This symposium interrelates current trajectories in FL learning, literature teaching and democratic education. As such, we are interested in the ways learners can experience fictional encounters with themes such as participation, equality and visibility of individual identities, groups or communities. We therefore invite conceptual and empirical contributions related to topic- and genre-related aspects of literature, selecting suitable texts for democratic education, classroom projects and experiences of using literature for democratic education, and the formulation/application of literary competences relevant to sociopolitical inquiries based on diverse literatures.
Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nl
Amos Paran
Hannah De Mulder
Caroline Scheuer NevesTechnical Issues?
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