mini-curso sao paulo 2007 questions from the reaction slips: day 4 how flexible should methodology...
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Mini-curso Sao Paulo 2007
Questions from the reaction slips: Day 4
How flexible should methodology be? What happened to the techniques for
teaching literacy in the classroom? Do the teacher and researcher have
different perspectives? How can we value the oral
competencies of our learners´use of language?
Mini-curso Sao Paulo 2007
Aims and objectives To examine the ´postcolonial landscapes´
and the role of local knowledge approaches.
To discuss some of the key themes in local knowledge research.
To look at some case studies where local knowledge was important
To exchange ideas about our own research To make that research more honest To work out a fruitful relationship with
´universal´theory.
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Day Four: revision
Postcolonial perspectives Is this a useful ‘historical condition´
to situate our research? Literacy practices: do they change in
a postcolonial perspective? What was postcolonial about the
literacy event in Bogu village? Is a researcher/teacher in a Brazilian
school working in a postcolonial context?
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Identity and representation
Why I need to explore this ‘topic’. 1. My main research question links literacy
and culture/identity. 2. Literacy changes people´s awareness of
their identity and hence culture (postcolonial identity).
3. Literacy gives people other options for representing themselves.
4. Postcolonial Literacy could erode, submerge or enrich identities/cultures (good thing?)
5. Literacy-culture, what verbs can we use...?
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Historical views
Definition of personal identity: Why am I with these people now? Pre-modern: Place of birth, ´place´in soc.
religion, family member... (name, dress) Modern: Job, language, politics, type of
car, clothes, nationality, gender Postmodern: institutional,
commodified.. Postcolonial: Hegemonies, Hybridity and
hyphenated identities..
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Theories of identity
Subjective views of identity Romantic: self-expression,
project of self Psychodynamic: socially
determined, symbolical order (Lacan)
Postmodern: fluidity, hybridity, fragmentary (Giddens)
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Identity as a social product
Collective identities (sociolinguistics)
(Essentialism? Orientalism-Said) Communities of Practice defined
by social engagement (Street) Queer Theory –Hybridity-
Diaspora-Crossing (Bhabha, Rampton)
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Identity, Ideology and Discourse
Interpellation (Althusser) Hegemonies, dominant discourses, (Foucault) ‘Subjection consists precisely in this
fundamental dependency on discourse we never choose but that paradoxically, initiates and sustains our agency´ Butler 1997:2
Performativity: identity as a discursive practice (Goffman, Fairclough)
Also: Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversation analysis (Schegloff)
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Different types of identity
Analytical approaches: Conversational identities Institutional identities Narrative identities Contexts (CDA, narrative,
multimodal): Commodified identities Spatial identities Virtual identities (Benwell and Stokoe 2006)
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Representation
That part of discourse which tells of the identity of the interlocutor. (?)
The world told (narrated) vs the world shown (displayed)
Affordances and modalities Importance of creativity, learning
(Kress 2004)
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Representation and identity
Linguistic revitalisation:representation at psycholinguistic level (Welsh, Cajun)
Language death/decline: (Batibo 2005) Linguistic representation: intercultural
conflicts (Bourdieu 1982) Typographies of representation (Dyer
1985): Stereotypes, classic types
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Example: Maria de Fátima F. Guilherme de Castro
Representations of English teachers, in pre-service and after 8 years
(see transparencies) Theory: Pecheux à la
brasilienne...
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Ontological landscapes
Has your ontological lanscape changed since Day One?
Discovered any new mountain ranges or marshes?
Have the epistemological ´sources´of the rivers changed?
Have you discovered new rivers or streams?
If nothing seems to have changed, don´t worry...