Virtual Session Room 1 Symposium
August 18, 2021 08:30 AM - August 18, 2022 12:00 Noon(Europe/Amsterdam)
20210818T0830 20210818T1200 Europe/Amsterdam S095 | Literature and Democratic Education

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.

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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.

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Literature use/teaching in Foreign Language Teaching moves FLT away from an instrumental, monetised view of the language classroom, aligning FLT with citizenship and values education. Promoting critical thinking and understanding the other align literature in language teaching with democratic values. Focusing on this transformation has wide-ranging implications for teacher education.
Presenters Amos Paran
University College London Institute Of Education
Values and valuable narratives: Relationships between children’s exposure to narratives and their moral orientationView Abstract Watch Recording 0
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This study investigated the relationship between narrative fiction exposure and moral orientation in 8-16 year-olds. Eudaimonic narrative fiction exposure was related to eudaimonic moral orientations. Information on the type of narrative exposure is thus relevant in understanding how narratives can be used to stimulate the development of specific moral orientations.
Presenters Hannah De Mulder
Leiden University
Pedagogical materials promoting critical thinking and democratic culture: the use of poem in foreign language classesView Abstract Watch Recording 0
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This paper proposes a pedagogical material that focuses on a poem, and follows principles of anti-racist education bringing intersectionality of race/ethnicity and gender into play. Tasks analyze racist and sexist situations experienced by the character and study language use within poetry, and production tasks foster diverse encounters and visibility.
Presenters Caroline Scheuer Neves
Lecturer, University Of Cape Town (South Africa)
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Janaína Conceição
University Of São Tomé And Príncipe
Dialogical meanings in the city by literary and musical artsView Abstract Watch Recording 0
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The dialogical meanings do not incorporate as literary and musical arts in relation to the daily life of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Work as reverberations enunciated in a language construction from the Bakhtin Circle.
Presenters
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Vitor Ferreira
Federal University Of Rio De Janeiro
'It’s unbelievable how well you speak German!' Learning (about) Democracy in and through Language in FL classes with Transcultural LiteratureView Abstract Watch Recording 0
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The aim of the paper is to present how working with texts of migration literature in FL classes can stimulate the work towards the democratic culture through the reflection on a language as an instrument of social inclusion and exclusion, of power and prestige.
Presenters
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Marta Janachowska-Budych
Adam Mickiewicz University
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University College London Institute of Education
Leiden University
Lecturer
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University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Adam Mickiewicz University
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Dr. Thorsten Merse
Researcher and Teacher Educator
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LMU Munich
Dr. Hongying Peng
AILA2021 volunteer
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University of Groningen
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