Intercultural Competence and Pedagogical Tact: Teachers’ Narratives of Handling Cultural Diversity
A presentation by Dr. Neda Forghani-Arani, Research Associate and Lecturer, Education and Human Development Department, University of Vienna, Austria.
Nationalism as Identification and Division Introducing Rhetorical Analysis in the Teacher Education Curriculum
In this presentation Dr. Kris Rutten discusses what we can learn from ‘new rhetoric‘ (focusing on the work of the American rhetorician Kenneth Burke [1897-1993]) about (national) identity and explores how nationalism can be taught from such a rhetorical perspective.
Women and Higher Education in Iran: Negotiating Between Modernity and Tradition
Professor Goli Rezai-Rashti provides an analysis of women’s access to higher education in Iran, which has varied over the last 30 years, and their continuously limited participation in the job market.
WATCH AND LEARN: Culture as Pedagogy on Work and Identity in the Health Care Sector
In this talk, Professor Kaela Jubas will discuss findings from a two-year study exploring the pedagogical functions of popular culture.
New Reading? Ruptures and Continuities: A Lecture
This lecture by Professor Mikko Lehtonen is based on a recently concluded research project, “New reading communities, new ways of reading,” that gathered fresh knowledge on how young people in Finland actually read today.