Join CLAS and the Teachers Across Borders project at the Universidade Federal do Parana (Brazil) for a virtual teacher training opportunity on how teachers' identities and world views impact the language classroom. The facilitator of this event is Dr. Jairo Castañeda, Universidad Surcolombiana (USCO, Colombia). The workshop will take place at 5:00 p.m. (EST) / 7:00 p.m. (Brazil).
This event is free and open to the public. Registration required.
Abstract
We teachers are a fundamental part of the educational processes, and as such, our identity affects what happens inside the classroom and to our students. From a critical perspective, these teacher identities are shaped through many contextualized lived experiences, from which we create or dismantle ideologies that affect our practices. In this workshop, we will seek to explore and reflect on these experiences, recognizing first that each context or territory is unique and that the way we situate ourselves there also responds to our beliefs and conceptions of what we understand as teaching, learning, and language (Fayyaz et al., 2014; Kumaravadivelu, 2006). These collaborative reflections will help teachers become more aware of the educational context and the influence of their presence there, which will also lead us to reflect on how to agency our identity to promote the principles of critical pedagogy, such as freedom and social transformation. We hope this workshop will help attendees become more aware of themselves, their environments, and the people they interact with (Bartlett et al., 2011). This workshop will be based on dialogue and collaboration and will generate spaces to share and discuss the main themes: identities, contexts, and transformation.
Bio
Dr. Jairo Enrique CastañedaTrujillo is an associate professor and a researcher at Universidad Surcolombiana (USCO) in the B.A. in English language teaching. He is also an advisor and professor at the Master’s program in ELT. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Education Program at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. He belongs to the research groups ILESEARCH and ESTUPOLI. He is a former president of ASOCOPI (Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Inglés).
This event was supported in part by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI NRC funding. The content of this event does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
