TY - CHAP
T1 - Human Rights Education in Language Teaching
AU - Yulita, Leticia
AU - Porto, Melina
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - As intercultural communication in language teaching is extending to citizenship education, there is an increasing need for research focusing on the implementation of theory into practice. With Critical Pedagogy as its driving principle, this chapter examines an online international project between language undergraduates within Argentina and the UK as an approach to human rights education in language teaching. It provides an overview of the pedagogical interventions designed to enhance awareness of democratic participation by empowering the students to become ‘transformative intellectuals’, engaged in self and social change through knowledge and action. The findings show the educational value of the project through the development of intercultural citizenship competences, such as decentring, empathy and solidarity, whilst creating an international community of ‘naming’ the world through photos, quotes, images, symbols and slogans.
AB - As intercultural communication in language teaching is extending to citizenship education, there is an increasing need for research focusing on the implementation of theory into practice. With Critical Pedagogy as its driving principle, this chapter examines an online international project between language undergraduates within Argentina and the UK as an approach to human rights education in language teaching. It provides an overview of the pedagogical interventions designed to enhance awareness of democratic participation by empowering the students to become ‘transformative intellectuals’, engaged in self and social change through knowledge and action. The findings show the educational value of the project through the development of intercultural citizenship competences, such as decentring, empathy and solidarity, whilst creating an international community of ‘naming’ the world through photos, quotes, images, symbols and slogans.
KW - intercultural communication
KW - Language Learning and Teaching
KW - citizenship
KW - Critical Pedagogy
KW - Transformative Intellectual
UR - http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783096541
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781783096541
T3 - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
BT - From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship
A2 - Byram, Michael
A2 - , Irina Golubeva
A2 - Hui, Han
A2 - Wagner, Manuela
PB - Multilingual Matters
ER -