LINGUIST List 23.1251: Confs: Applied Linguistics/UK

LINGUIST List 23.1251
Mon Mar 12 2012 Confs: Applied Linguistics/UK Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org>
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Date: 10-Mar-2012 From: Filippo Nereo <Filippo.Nereoheacademy.ac.uk> Subject: Teaching, Learning and Living the Graduate Attribute of Global Citizenship within and beyond Disciplinary Boundaries E-mail this message to a friend Teaching, Learning and Living the Graduate Attribute of Global Citizenship within and beyond Disciplinary Boundaries Date: 18-May-2012 - 18-May-2012 Location: Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom Contact: Juliet Henderson Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/seminars/disciplines/DW133 Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Meeting Description: This seminar, funded by the UK Higher Education Academy as part of its workshop and seminar series, has three main goals. First, it seeks to offer practical interpretations of the graduate attribute of global citizenship in individual teaching practices. Secondly, it aims to challenge assumptions that the language of global citizenship attributes is empty rhetoric. Thirdly, it critically explores how links between theory and pedagogy can enhance the student learning experience. Graduate Attributes are now a key driver of teaching and learning practices in UK Higher Education (ESECT 2004). These refer to skills, knowledge and abilities of graduates, which go beyond disciplinary content knowledge or technical expertise, and are intended to prepare students to be active agents of social good both in the workplace and the community. Amongst the various descriptors of such attributes is that of ‘global citizenship’. This identity marker reflects a contemporary, international way of thinking in today’s local academic communities and globalising world. At Oxford Brookes University, the graduate attribute of ‘global citizenship’ is defined in the Strategy for Enhancing the Student Experience 2010-2015 as: Knowledge and skills, showing cross-cultural awareness, and valuing human diversity. The ability to work effectively, and responsibly, in a global context. Translating such new types of knowledge into teaching materials and activities raises challenges for colleagues across the subject disciplines. From an institutional perspective, global citizenship is often a central thread of university internationalisation strategies which aim to advance existing practices in relation to the quality of the learning experience for international and home students. More specifically, in the human and social sciences, global citizenship is being constructed in various disciplines in both different and overlapping ways. Drawing on research (e.g. Block 2011) and evaluation studies this seminar critically considers how academics in the disciplines of English and Applied Linguistics are articulating global citizenship in their own voice, and in ways that make the student learning experience transformative. 9.30-10.00 Registration and Coffee 10.00-10.15 Welcome and outline of seminar 10.15-10.45 Key paper 1: Theory and practice + responses 10.45-11.15 Key paper 2: Practice based research + responses 11.15-11.30 Coffee 11.30-12.00 Key paper 3: Practice based research + responses 12.00-12.30 Chair led discussion - review of the morning and future directions 12.30-1.30 Lunch (poster presentation of Undergraduate global citizenship research) This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. 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