Is there a place for forgiveness and discomforting pedagogies in the foreign language classroom in higher education?

Porto, Melina and Yulita, Leticia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3270-1146 (2019) Is there a place for forgiveness and discomforting pedagogies in the foreign language classroom in higher education? Cambridge Journal of Education, 49 (4). pp. 477-499. ISSN 0305-764X

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Abstract

This article describes a project in which university language students communicated across the globe to address a topic of human rights violations. The aim of the article is to answer the question of whether there is a place in language education for forgiveness and discomforting pedagogies. This focus is new in the field. It begins with an overview of intercultural citizenship education, followed by the pedagogical intervention and case study. It continues with a description of theoretical developments in forgiveness and discomforting pedagogies and provides an analysis of the data from the project with these lenses. Findings indicate that students displayed varying forms of emotional investment as they mediated interculturally with their interlocutors and the ghosts of those who suffered from human rights abuse in the past. The research demonstrates that forgiveness and discomforting pedagogies do have a place in language teaching when combined with intercultural citizenship education.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	higher education,forgiveness and discomforting pedagogies,intercultural citizenship,foreign language learning
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Apr 2019 08:30
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2024 23:52
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70639
DOI:	10.1080/0305764X.2019.1566441

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