CER Educational Conversation: Local diversity and global connectedness in support of learning: New thinking, new pedagogies for increasingly diverse classroom contexts

Event Name
CER Educational Conversation: Local diversity and global connectedness in support of learning: New thinking, new pedagogies for increasingly diverse classroom contexts
Date
2 April 2019
Time
12:00 pm - 01:30 pm
Location
Bankstown Campus; Penrith (Kingswood) Campus

Address (Room): Bankstown Campus 3.G.54; Kingswood Campus K.2.200; zoom https://uws.zoom.us/j/875248291

Description

This presentation will detail research informed pedagogy funded by the NSW Department of Education and undertaken in super-diverse (Vertovec, 2007) Western Sydney primary classrooms. This body of research was informed by culturally responsive pedagogy (Ladson-Billings, 1995), place-conscious pedagogy (Comber, 2016) and recent work on culturally-sustaining pedagogy (Paris & Alim, 2017). Students and teachers were engaged as co-researchers, investigating the mobility of students and the school communities’ cultural, linguistic and communicative resources. This presentation will share the pedagogies taken up in this setting (D’warte, 2012; 2014), and consider how positioning young people as researchers and knowledge producers (Bucholtz et al. 2014), deepened teachers’ and students’ understandings and targeted curriculum outcomes. As partners in learning, teachers, students and the wider school community went beyond celebrations of cultural and linguistic difference to enhance and reimagine classroom teaching and learning. Placing cultural and linguistic flexibility at the centre of teaching and learning not only perpetuates and fosters a pluralist present and future but offers myriad educational possibilities. Presenter: Dr Jacqueline D’warte is a Senior Lecturer in English language and literacy curriculum and pedagogy in the School of Education at Western Sydney University. Jacqueline’s research interests include, language and literacy teaching and learning with a focus on equity and diversity. Jacqueline’s most recent research explores the connections between language, identity and learning in culturally and linguistically diverse educational settings.

Speakers: Dr. Dr Jacqueline D’warte

Web page: http://zoom https://uws.zoom.us/j/875248291

Contact
Name: Jo Dunbar

j.dunbar@westernsydney.edu.au

School / Department: Education