Building Blocks to Social Justice: Using Patchwork and Literature to Develop Intercultural Knowledge
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https://doi.org/10.31074/gyntf.2025.3.111.124Kulcsszavak:
intercultural competence, patchwork, Alice Walker, Susan Glaspell, social justice, collaborative learningAbsztrakt
This paper discusses the design, implementation, and best practices used in the course, Intercultural knowledge, held in English through the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Eötvös Loránd University’s Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education (ELTE TÓK). As an elective course, Intercultural knowledge can be attended by any student from the faculty, including pre-service daycare providers, pre-school educators, and primary teachers. In order to promote intercultural competence while raising awareness of issues pertaining to social justice, the interdisciplinary approach of combining patchwork with literary texts by authors Alice Walker and Susan Glaspell was applied. In practice, combining patchwork with selected literary texts has been shown to create an atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation that develops intercultural competence while encouraging discussion on sensitive topics related to social justice and inequity.
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