Competences for Democratic Culture: An Empirical Study of An Intercultural Citizenship Project in Language Pedagogy

Autor/in	Yulita, Leticia
Titel	Competences for Democratic Culture: An Empirical Study of An Intercultural Citizenship Project in Language Pedagogy
Quelle	In: Language Teaching Research, 22 (2018) 5, S.499-516 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-1688
DOI	10.1177/1362168817718579
Schlagwörter	Competence; Intercultural Communication; Democracy; Democratic Values; Foreign Countries; Civil Rights; Intervention; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Citizenship Education; Undergraduate Students; English (Second Language); Political Issues; United Kingdom; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kompetenz; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Demokratie; Ausland; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Politischer Faktor; Großbritannien; Argentinien
Abstract	This article reports on a pedagogical intervention in foreign language teaching in higher education. It analizes the competences developed by Argentinian and UK-based students as they used Skype to design a leaflet that addressed a real world issue: the Argentinian military dictatorship and its manipulation of the 1978 Football World Cup. The data consists of students' discussions of this highly disturbing human rights issue. A first level of analysis focused on identifying evidence of competences using the Council of Europe's conceptual model of 'competences for democratic culture' (2016). In a second level of analysis, the data was categorized within the framework of Article 2.2 of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training (2011). This research study provides an empirical test of these two frameworks in the field of language education, an aspect that has not been investigated before. It also contributes to our understanding of the potential of intercultural citizenship projects in achieving the goals of human rights education in foreign language teaching. Results indicate the development of substantial competences for democratic culture defined in the Council of Europe's model. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01