CTIS Research Seminar - Why Creative and Collaborative Arts Matter in (De)preparing Learners for Critical Intercultural Citizenship?
| Dates: | 4 December 2025 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Dr Maryam Almohammad |
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This talk takes you into my journey with the arts and critical intercultural communication education. It investigates the dynamic relationship between creative art-based methods, teaching practice, theory, and research to develop a dialectical and dialogical model for (de)preparing learners for critical intercultural communication in the real world. There has been a creative body of intercultural research engaging arts-based methodology, this research has engaged innovatively and productively with ongoing and urgent concerns in the field relating to de-essentialising (MacDonald and O’Regan 2013; Ferri 2018; MacDonald 2019); decolonising (Phipps 2013, 2019); research methodology, relationships and ethics (Holliday and MacDonald 2019; Bradley and Harvey 2019); and intercultural citizenship education (Gonçalves Matos & Melo-Pfeifer, 2020).
Being part of this collaborative and creative turn, I worked in the Creating Welcoming Learning Environments AHRC-funded project (AH/R004781/1) in England with Professor Jane Andrews at the University of the West of England in 2017-2019, we brought together researchers, creative artists, education consultants and teachers in mainstream schools to collaborate and reflect on our identities, responsibilities, ideas and practices during a series of art workshops (e.g. collage, filmmaking, textile and printing), with the goal of developing new activities for use to integrate children and young people and promote multilingualism, inclusion and diversity in schools in England (Andrews and Almohammad, 2022).
This event is hybrid. The audience could join via Zoom link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vT37ZEQtR9CT1HTFYx_jaA
Speaker
Dr Maryam Almohammad
Organisation: The University of Edinburgh
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Samuel Alexander Building
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