The Second International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
Beja, Nov 24-27, 2004
Deadline for 150-word abstracts: July 15, 2004
All abstracts to be submitted through Mundiconvenius
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Themed session:
Performing Critical Pedagogy/ies: Cross-cultural perspectives and practices
Session organiser:
Édia Cristina Pinho <[log in to unmask]>
Critical Pedagogy cannot be reduced to academic research and writing on
specific issues; it must be understood, Henry Giroux argues, as “an act of
decentering, a form of transit and border crossing, a way of constructing an
intercultural politics in which dialogue, exchange and translation take
place across different communities, national boundaries and regional
borders”.
With Giroux’s argument in mind, this session invites scholars from different
areas of knowledge to perform a transdisciplinary reading and
reconceptualization of Critical Pedagogy aimed at rethinking and developing
new spaces for cross-cultural interactivity and creativity as part of a
wider project for educational and social change. It welcomes 20-minute
papers dealing with, or focusing on, the challenge of examining how Cultural
Studies’ interpretative and performative framework is fundamental to
creating integrative and expansive transdisciplinary articulations which
inform and extend the possibilities for (re)presenting, (re)evaluating and
(re)inventing Critical Pedagogy / -ies.
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