Rethinking Cultural Learning

In the multipolar world of the 21st century, successful communication is key, and language education, with its focus on languages, cultures and texts is uniquely positioned to support learners in becoming active agents of change. For global challenges require globally concerted efforts to face and, ultimately, solve these issues. For various reasons discussed in this edited volume, the dominant frameworks of inter- and transcultural learning in English language education have not succeeded in disrupting the perpetuation of systems of categorisation, stereotypisation, and colonial power hierarchies. Thus, the search for more comprehensive notions of cultural learning continues. It is in this context that this volume seeks to reposition cultural learning by exploring cosmopolitan perspectives on language education from a wide range of angles: The contributions in the first part draw on disciplines as diverse as educational philosophy, citizenship education, international law, and human rights education to provide an in-depth discussion, contextualisation, and orientation of cosmopolitan citizenship approaches to English language education. Based on this theoretical foundation, the second part gives an overview of fundamental concepts, principles, and approaches related to a cosmopolitan orientation of cultural learning in English language education. It encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects relevant to the language classroom, from cultural and literary learning to peace education, to fake news, and language variation to sustainability education. In doing so, it offers suggestions for classroom practices to successfully implement cosmopolitan citizenship-informed language education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii List of Figures ix List of Tables x
1 (Re-)Discovering Cosmopolitanism for Language Education: An Introduction 1 Philipp Siepmann, Ricardo Römhild, Anika Marxl, Daniel Becker & Frauke Matz
PART I: RE-THINKING CULTURAL LEARNING – INTERDISCIPLINARY UNDERPINNINGS OF COSMOPOLITANISM
2 Cosmopolitan Education 21 Liz Jackson
3 Global Citizenship Education 37 William Gaudelli
4 Human Rights – Contents, Development, Current Debates 51 Moritz Vormbaum & Marian Yankson-Mensah
5 Human Rights Education and Language Education 65 Hugh Starkey
PART II: COSMOPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE EDUCATION
6 Cosmopolitan Minds, Global Discourses, and the Significance of Language Education 81 Anika Marxl & Ricardo Römhild
7 Critical Global Citizenship Education in the EFL Classroom: Developing Critical Literacy and Symbolic Competence 99 Irene Heidt & Britta Freitag-Hild
8 Quo Vadis Cultural Learning and Language Education? 115 Werner Delanoy
9 Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Language Education – Current Trajectories and Alternative Perspectives 137 Ricardo Römhild & Philipp Meer
10 Global Englishes in the English Language Classroom – Suggestions for Encountering Nigerian English with Focus on the Language Level 155 Ulrike Gut & Julia Reckermann
11 Fake News and Critical Literacy in Foreign Language Education 171 Bärbel Diehr
12 Peace Education and the (Foreign) Language Classroom 189 Frauke Matz
13 English Language Education for Sustainable Development: Contours of a Conceptual Framework 209 Ricardo Römhild, Philipp Siepmann & Janine Bruns
Contributors 229