Es werden mehrere Seminare dieses Typs angeboten; um eine gleichmäßige Auslastung dieser Kurse zu gewährleisten, melden Sie sich bitte per Email (silke.stutzke@rz.hu-berlin.de) zu den Seminaren an. This course applies theoretical insights from the seminar “Theoriegeleitetes Forschen und Handeln – Issues of Gender and Sexuality in the EFL classroom” to the field of planning and teaching EFL classes on that topic and specifically addresses participants in that course. However, students who did not take the seminar during SoSe 2012 or do not take it now but are prepared to do some extra reading are also welcome. We will begin by refreshing our memories of the theoretical discourses on gender and sexuality, linking these concepts to objectives of (inter- and trans-)cultural learning in Foreign Language Education. After this introductory resp. recapitulating start we will discuss the potential of creative and production-oriented methods of critical interpretation of a fictional text with a thematic focus on gender issues. These methods can include the re-writing or otherwise re-telling of the story from a different perspective, by means of a different medium, in a different literary genre, by using another linguistic register, etc. As participants you will form small teams, select one of these methods, design a task on our specific fictional text and complete that task in a series of self-organized workshop session. You will be asked to reflect upon the genesis of the new text you produce, upon the processes of cultural learning that occurred in the cooperative process, as well as on possible individual insights on mechanisms of the construction of gender and sexuality and their social and personal consequences. At the end of the semester each team will present the results of their creative endeavors and learning experiences which will then be discussed in class. These reflections and discussions will form the basis of your seminar papers. A course syllabus as well as required primary and secondary literature will be provided in a Moodle course under www.moodle.hu-berlin.de. |
