“Drawing your Mobility Map”(cf. A. Gohard-Radenkovic)

Meertalige competencies & interculturele mediation Utrecht

2010

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The aim of this exercise is

• to discover your own linguistic resources, • to identify the social and cultural values that

we unconsciously and spontaneous carry on representing the other,

• to formulate your experience of otherness (looking at the other and feeling self as other).

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Activity 1

Draw the mapping of your moving,inside or outside your country

(trips, travels, staying in other countries)

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Activity 2

Qualify (with keywords) your feelingsand the image you had/have of the other

and the one the other had of you [in the different places]

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Consider the languages which whom you came in contact.Give them a place on your map.

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Choose a title for your map.

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Activity 3

Present your mobility map to your neighbour and answer his/her questions about your map

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Stay still, noticing the complexity of your history and experience of the other.

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Activity 4(to be done)

Translate your drawn mapping in a short essay, writing your experience of mobility and trying

to understand the influence it had on the representation of the other.

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Awareness

Be aware of your multilingual &(pluri)cultural capital, building “your relation to otherness”

• Mobility capital• Linguistic repertoire• Symbolic capital• [Gautheron-Boutchatsky, C. 2004]

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Give a small presentation of your multilingual &pluricultural experience

in your language biography.

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Link met de cursus

• Een moeilijk voor te leggen ervaring / experience

• Een aangeboden contract: een (relationeel en collectief) onderzoeksproces over

– « We there »– « They here »– « We all there »– « We all here and there » [Salo-Lee, L. 2007]

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Een corpus bouwen en anayseren

• Enqueteren• De ander vragen stellen• Zich vragen stellen

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Aandachtspunten

3 factoren die een bijzondere rol spelen in de relatie tot de ander (vreemde):

• De taal• de aangeleerde/bestaande stereotypen• de competentie tot mediation

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ontdekkingsproces

• Vragen stellen zowel aan de ander als aan zichzelf

• Ontdekken dat « de ander, ben ik » (MA ICC student 2009-2010)

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