Tuesday, October 27, 2020
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
OCL Virtual Talk
Event Type
Lecture
Contact
Griffin, Lisa
Department
Provost Office
Link
https://ems-web.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=89602
“Critical Pedagogy and World
Language Education: Toward Transformative Educational Experiences”
Distinguished Visitor Timothy
Reagan, Professor, University of Maine
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at
2:30 pm (ET)
Join Zoom Talk: https://haverford.zoom.us/j/94051678678?pwd=MlBaQkp5dStDQktpQ2piTTJEOHRFUT09
Abstract: In this presentation, Prof. Reagan will argue
for the role of critical pedagogy in world language education as a way of
addressing the marginalization of the teaching and learning of languages other
than English. As Alastair Pennycook has suggested, critical pedagogy “requires
us to understand our educational practice in broader social, cultural, and political
terms . . . and it is to critical pedagogy that … we could most profitably turn
to extend our conception of what we are doing as language teachers.” The
implications of Pennycook’s point are immense, not only for the overall goals
of world language education, but also for the curricula of world language
classes. World language education has an incredible potential to promote social
justice, as well as to nurture critical and transformative educational
perspectives and practices, and it is with this potential that we will be
concerned.
Sponsored by the Department
of Spanish and Education in conjunction with the Distinguished Visitors Program.