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Claire Griffin

Bio: Claire Griffin is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 26 citations.

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Dissertation
19 Nov 2012
TL;DR: Agregation constituent une etape cruciale dans le processus d'interculturation, parce qu’ils initient les candidats anglophones aux normes, regles et valeurs du systeme educatif francais et de l’anglais-objet d’etude universitaire et d'enseignement-apprentissage en France, ces premiers ne sont en realite que les premisses d'une longue construction de l'identite professionnelle de c
Abstract: Depuis l’ouverture des concours de recrutement de l’Education nationale aux ressortissants europeens, au debut des annees 1990, de nombreux Britanniques et Irlandais ont rejoint le contingent d’enseignants certifies et agreges d’anglais. Ces professeurs d’anglais « locuteurs natifs » (PALN) n’ont pas ete socialisesen France et mettent parfois des annees a decoder le systeme educatif francais et leur integration professionnelle depend de nombreux facteurs. Si le CAPES et l’Agregation constituent une etape cruciale dans le processus d’interculturation, parce qu’ils initient les candidats anglophones aux normes, regles et valeurs du systeme educatif francais et de l’anglais-objet d’etude universitaire et d’enseignement-apprentissage en France, ces premiers ne sont en realite que les premisses d’une longue construction de l’identite professionnelle de ces enseignants. La presente enquete, elaboree dans une perspective ancree et comprehensive et qui s’appuie sur des methodes mixtes, a permis au chercheur d’explorer comment les PALN percoivent leur vie et leur identite professionnelles. Une analyse du discours des participants et des interactions enqueteur-enquete amene le chercheur au cœur de la problematique identitaire des enseignants« natifs » qui se retrouvent face a un paradoxe : si le « capital natif » est un atout pour reussir les concours de recrutement, une interculturation (Demorgon, 1999) « trop » reussie peut fragiliser ce meme capital qui, pour conserver son interet et rester dynamique, doit etre sans cesse actualise.

26 citations


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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: This book discusses the development of English as a global language in the 20th Century and some of the aspects of its development that have changed since the publication of the first edition.
Abstract: A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 521 82347 1 hardback ISBN 0 521 53032 6 paperback Contents List of tables page vii Preface to the second edition ix Preface to the first edition xii 1 Why a global language? 1 What is a global language? 3 What makes a global language? 7 Why do we need a global language? 11 What are the dangers of a global language? 14 Could anything stop a global language? 25 A critical era 27 2 Why English? The historical context 29 Origins 30 America 31 Canada 36 The Caribbean 39 Australia and New Zealand 40 South Africa 43 South Asia 46 Former colonial Africa 49 Southeast Asia and the South Pacific 54 A world view 59 v Contents

1,857 citations

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01 Jan 1988-System

887 citations

Book
01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: Theory and practice of LANGUAGE TEACHING Part Two: ASPECTS OF LANGUEAGE as mentioned in this paper Part Three: ASPEECTS of TEACHing
Abstract: PART ONE: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LANGUAGE TEACHING PART TWO: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE PART THREE: ASPECTS OF TEACHING

823 citations

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TL;DR: Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah as discussed by the authors is a guide for identifying and confronting complex ethical issues in a multi-perspectival world.
Abstract: Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. By Kwame Anthony Appiah. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Pp. xxii + 196, preface, introduction, acknowledgments, notes, index. $24.95 cloth, $15.95 paper) Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism is meant as a guide for identifying and confronting complex ethical issues in a multi-perspectival world. Its author, an Oxford-educated philosopher of Ghanaian-British parentage, bridges worlds. The term cosmopolitanism - the author prefers it over globalizations narrow association with economics and multiculturalismi observed tendency to prescribe - encompasses two core values: "the idea that we have obligations to others, obligations that stretch beyond those to whom we are related by the ties of kith and kin, or even formal ties of a shared citizenship," and the idea "that we take seriously the value not just of human life but of particular human lives, which means taking an interest in the practices and beliefs that lend them significance" (xv). Terms such as tolerance, kindness, and pluralism are central to cosmopolitan thinking. Appiah presents a wide range of issues that can serve as frames through which to examine how we as individuals and professionals make ethical decisions - essential for the humanities scholar, student, and public-sector folklorist: How real are values? What do we talk about when we talk about differences? Is any form of relativism right? When do morals and manners clash? Can culture be owned? What do we owe strangers by virtue of our shared humanity? And all this is good... and yet, and yet. Too often, the resolutions Appiah proposes for these key issues are so one-sided and misleading, so bolstered by irrelevant, erroneous, and outdated sources, that they are of little help in sorting through the paradoxical interfaces of pluralism and autonomy, diversity and democracy, and globalization and protection of what is valuable in the local. In his central chapter, "Cosmopolitan Contamination," Appiah proposes a change of priorities - away from purity, peoples, authenticity, tribalism, and cultural protection, and toward individuals, mixture, modernity, rights, and what he calls contamination (his term for healthy hybridization) . His philosophical underpinning ("The right approach, I think, starts by taking individuals - not nations, tribes or 'peoples' - as die proper object of moral concern" [Appiah 2006] ) is a hallmark of rightist thought and practice. The left emphasizes social, political, and environmental factors that can constrain the ability of individuals to choose freely. Both perspectives are needed, but only one is developed in this book. Many folklorists are familiar with issues of cultural change and preservation as discussed at UNESCO and WIPO. Appiah reveals no understanding of the complexities of diese dynamics. He wrongly assumes many anthropologists to be cultural relativists who tolerate such practices as female genital mutilation (15) and that UNESCO's Declaration of Cultural Diversity celebrates a pluralism that could embrace the likes of the KKK conveniently ignoring Article IV: "No one may invoke cultural diversity to infringe upon human right. …

809 citations