SPECIAL TALK provided by JACET on Language Teacher Cognition and supported by the Kawanari Kaken (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) project
DATE: Saturday, July 16th 2 pm to 5 pm
日時：７月１６日（土） ２時〜５時
VENUE: Toyo Eiwa University, Roppongi campus, room 201
場所：東洋英和女学院大学（六本木）２０１教室
場所：東洋英和女学院大学（六本木）２０１教室
SPEAKER: Larisa Kasumagic-Kafedzic (Sarajevo University)
TITLE:
Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching:
Teacher Education and Classroom Implications in Bosnia and Herzegovina
ABSTRACT:
Scholars and practitioners alike around the world
consistently point to the effects of the war on education and emphasize the
crucial role of citizenship education, intercultural education and major
curricular reforms in the post-war contexts. The assumption that „education
contributes to reconciliation, is one of the foundational assumptions that
informs international work around education in emergencies“ (Barakat et al.,
2008). Twenty years after the war (1992-1995) Bosnia and Herzegovina is still
very fragile, dysfunctional and continues to face numerous political and
socio-economic challenges. The main emphasis of this lecture is to analyze the
intercultural dimension of learning and teaching English as a foreign language
in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to discuss the role of intercultural and critical
pedagogy in preparing teachers at pre-service teacher education programs for assuming
social and moral responsibilities in post-war society, still deeply divided and
struggling to recover. Successful intercultural interaction is based on the
attitudes which are free of prejudices and stereotypes, and intercultural
learning aids students in developing multiperspectivity and advanced
comprehension of complex relations amongst different cultures. Intercultural
education has become a critical component of teacher education in many European
countries, where the language learning process is seen through the prism of
learning about a second or foreign culture. This is particularly important
because preparing students to know ‘how to live together’ is considered one of
the most important goals in the 21st century education.
BIO:
Dr. Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić has been actively
involved in peaceful upbringing, community youth development programs, the
philosophy of nonviolence and intercultural pedagogy for the past 20 years.
During the war in Bosnia, she co-founded a local organization that provided
psycho-social support for war traumatized children and their families. She
holds a MA in international development and education from Cornell University,
USA, and Ph.D. in English and Intercultural Education from Sarajevo University.
She is an assistant professor at Sarajevo University, and currently a visiting
professor at Sophia University where she is staying for the spring semester.
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