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Language and Intercultural Education
Dr. Alan Bruce
Mayte Martin
ULS Dublin
ICT 4LL Conference
Florence, Italy
13 November 2014.
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overview
• Connection between language learning, intercultural education and lifelong learning
• Languages in historic and social space
• Conceptual space vs. economic and political advantage
• Language: culture, conquest, assimilation
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Languages and social power
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Language and status
• Alienating and degrading some social groups
• Power and domination of ‘superior’ language
• Tool of domination and repression
• Subtle, unconscious and insidious use of language to act as badge of superiority/inferiority
• Awareness of what language represents
• Looking at the Irish language
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Language and culture
• Socio-cultural knowledge
• Intercultural education and social cohesion
• From mobility to globalized markets
• Survival in the migratory world
• Asserting identity – and rights
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Mobility in Europe?
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Impact of migration
• Numerous languages spoken by new clients overwhelm services.
• Lack of linguistic access can be discriminatory
• Cultural competence in a changing Ireland
• Training, awareness and integration – the Irish journey
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contested identity
• Contested space – uncertain identity
• Inclusion in what?
• From ‘non-national’ to citizen
• Legacies of inferiority – the colonial impact
• Uncertain welcome – crisis
• Frame of mind regarding reception of the Other
• Reality of two pre-existing languages
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Irish linguistic map
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Tracing irish
• Ancient Celtic language
• Rich bardic tradition, poetry and literary heritage
• Dispossessed Gaelic aristocracy in 17th century
• Replaced as language of Church and governance
• Criminalization and mark of discrimination
• Impact of Great Famine 1846-49
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Policy in crisis: the 19th Century
National School system (1831)Resistance and segregationIdentity and revolutionThe tidal wave of emigrationPartition and religion
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Understanding the colony
• Contradiction and ambivalence: ownership and identity
• Albert Memmi – colonizer and colonized
• Guilt, humiliation and long memory
• Derivative imitation and conflict
the slights, the wrongs,
the long indignities
the stubborn core within each heart defies
John Hewitt
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The murder machine
• Intersection with official schooling system
• Learning by rote and memorization
• Terminal examinations, equity and academic streaming
• Vocational Education Act (1943)
• Towards a new vision: language, ICT and primary reform
• Inward migration and emancipatory learning
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Diversity imperatives
• Radical re-structuring of world economy
• Interconnected information/communication
• Differential access to resources
• Professional competence
• Dealing with transformational change
• Ensuring recognition and respect
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opportunities
• Agreed definition of multicultural
• Adjustment and accommodation
• Melting pot or mosaic
• Separate development
• Beliefs, values and practices
• Symbols, language and behaviour
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Challenges
• Mutual interaction or structured exclusion?
• Community values or communal rituals?
• Linkage to realities or past models?
• Shared memories or shared hatreds?
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Interculturalism
• Interaction
• Empathy
• Communication
• Knowledge
• Removal of prejudice
• Linked themes: gender, power, violence, values
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Thank you
Alan Bruce
Mayte Martín
ULS: DUBLIN – HELSINKI – AMSTERDAM - CHICAGO
www.ulsystems.com