Language & Education Network Research Seminar - Mike Byram: Ethical Issues in Teaching Intercultural Citizenship in Foreign Language Education

Ethical Issues in Teaching Intercultural Citizenship in Foreign Language Education 

Building on the idea that language teaching has an educational as well as instrumental purpose, and that language teaching can/should help learners to relate their learning to the here and now and the society in which they live, a number of projects in recent years have put into practice the notion of ‘intercultural citizenship’. This raises ethical questions for teachers, since they encourage/expect their learners to take ‘action in the community’. It is these questions which will be the focus of my talk: what they are and how they might be addressed.  

Speaker: Mike Byram (University of Durham & Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski)