Virtual Exchange as an EDI-compliant approach to language education: a Global South-North research-informed seminar.

Description

This seminar aimed to support knowledge-sharing of theory and research-informed practice about the relatively novel integration of Virtual Exchange (VE) in the language learning and teaching Higher Education curriculum. O’Dowd (2018, p.1) defines VE as ‘the engagement of groups of learners in online intercultural interactions and collaboration projects with partners from other cultural contexts or geographical locations as an integrated part of their educational programmes’. The objectives of the seminar are to:
1. Introduce participants to innovative student-centred decolonised and inclusive approaches to VE curricular integration in language education;
2. Foster a discussion on how to facilitate a critical approach to the theorisation of VE bringing in different voices from the Global South and the Global North from both language specialists (Satar, Hauck, Finardi, Salomão & Hildeblando Júnior) and from a VE expert in other discipline (Jacobs);
3. Invite participants to practise the design of their own VE curricular intervention and/or share their existing VE projects;
4. Foster a reflection on how VE can support the development of EDI-informed curricular interventions;
5. Knowledge-share on how the UN Sustainable Development Goals can be integrated in VE-supported language education.

Period	14 Jun 2024
Event type	Seminar
Location	Coventry, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International