On the Dialogical Relationship between Human Rights and Language Education: Critical Discourse Literacies and Language Education of Peace
Basic data for this talk
Type of talk: scientific talk
Name der Vortragenden: Matz, Frauke; Römhild, Ricardo
Date of talk: 19/04/2024
Talk language: English
Information about the event
Name of the event: 15th ICEDC annual conference: Extending human rights education. (WERA, IRN / HRE), UCL, 19th April 2024
Event period: 19/04/2024
Event location: University College London, London
Event website: https://global-iahre.org/research/
Organised by: International Association of Human Rights Education
Abstract
In this presentation, we explore the role of language education in the context of educating for cosmopolitan citizenship and human rights. We discuss the implications education for cosmopolitan citizenship may yield for the (English as a foreign) language classroom and the conceptual cornerstones of human rights-informed language education. Based on our latest publication dedicated to these questions, we discuss the unique and important role of language education in this context by means of two spotlights: (1) on the development of discourse literacies as the superordinate goal of the language classroom, which comprises a strong value-oriented component as well as functional-communicative and critical dimensions; (2) on critical and transformative peace education as an inherent part of cultural learning in language classrooms. We also point to ways in which the cosmopolitan and human rights-informed language classroom might progress from here.Keywords: Human rights education; Children's rights education; Education for Sustainable Development; critical pedagogy; Language Education; TEFOL; TESOL; Peace Education
Speakers from the University of Münster
| Matz, Frauke | Professorship for English teaching methodology (Prof. Matz) |
| Römhild, Ricardo | Professorship for English teaching methodology (Prof. Matz) |