ELT for Peace Education: Negotiating Ethnic and Cultural Plurality

Autor/in	Chowdhury, Piku
Titel	ELT for Peace Education: Negotiating Ethnic and Cultural Plurality
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 4 (2013) 1, S.149-153 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Peace; Violence; Cultural Pluralism; Political Issues; Religious Cultural Groups; Language Teachers; Preservice Teachers; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Minority Groups; Questionnaires; Ethnic Groups; Cultural Awareness; Rural Areas; Urban Areas; Cultural Background; Student Characteristics; Muslims; Christianity; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Frieden; Gewalt; Kulturpluralismus; Politischer Faktor; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Ethnische Minderheit; Fragebogen; Ethnie; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Urban area; Stadtregion; Muslim; Muslimin; Christentum; Indien
Abstract	Multiculturalism and multi-ethnicity have assumed the status of the most charged signs characterizing social contingencies and resultant violence in the increasingly glocalized world today. Minoritization continually interrupts and interrogates the homogeneous, horizontal claim of the projected democratic liberal society. Solidarity turns out to be situational and strategic while the concept of commonality is negotiated through contingencies of social interest and political claims. As Homi K. Bhabha points out in "Cultures in Between": "How did we allow ourselves to forget that the nationalist violence between Hindus and Muslims lie just under the skin of India's secular modernity? ...We have entered an anxious age of identity" (p.59). Experimenting with UNESCO's vision of promoting a "culture of peace" through education, 70 trainee teachers from varied socio-cultural and religious backgrounds were exposed to ELT exercises that opened up new avenues of peace education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01