Abstract
The increasing orientation towards interculturality in language education calls for research to investigate teacher and student perceptions and practices of interculturality. Most research already conducted in this area primarily concerns teacher perceptions and practices, but this study contributes to an exploration of how lower secondary school students (grade 8) engaged in broader issues of interculturality, which include issues of celebrity, identity, gender and sexuality. The participatory action research intervention analysed in this paper explored the pedagogical potential of Cultural studies and the case of celebrity Miley Cyrus’ toying with intersecting identities. The study’s findings show that many of the participating students had sufficient linguistic and analytical resources to engage in a discourse analysis of an open letter to Miley Cyrus on Facebook from singer Sinead O’Connor, which was the pedagogical aim of the intervention. From the study’s explorative intervention, it emerged that knowledge about Cultural studies with focus on three key concepts, intersectionality (Dervin, 2016, Dhamoon, 2009), othering (Dervin, 2016, Dhamoon, 2009), and subtextuality (Svarstad, 2016, Agger, 1992), supported the analysis of classroom dialogues and helped to conceptualise and develop a metalanguage of broader issues of interculturality.
Thus, the study’s findings provide a response to new curriculum demands for a ‘dynamic’ and complex view of culture learning in English language education in Denmark.
Thus, the study’s findings provide a response to new curriculum demands for a ‘dynamic’ and complex view of culture learning in English language education in Denmark.
Bidragets oversatte titel | Cultural studies og intersektionalitet: At undersøge elevers engagement i emner som kendisser, identitet, køn og seksualitet. |
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Originalsprog | Engelsk |
Tidsskrift | Language Learning Journal |
Vol/bind | 49 |
Udgave nummer | 6 |
Sider (fra-til) | 740-752 |
Antal sider | 13 |
ISSN | 0957-1736 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2021 |
Emneord
- Skoler, fag og institutioner
- Cultural studies
- intersektionalitet
- engelskundervisning
- kulturundervisning
- køn
- interkulturalitet
- andetgørelse
- subtekstualitet
- Miley Cyrus feminisme