Abstracts
Abstract
Disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic revealed in new ways the vulnerabilities of students’ sense of self, especially in the contexts of intercultural orientations to language education where critical self-reflection can be disorienting for learners. We propose a pedagogy of care to manage such decentering, aiding the formation of caring communities of practice and development of student flourishing. Our data derives from a teacher education course on intercultural orientations to language education and mediation, taught virtually in 2020. We analysed email exchanges between the professor and students and transcribed Zoom class sessions to examine the instructor’s pedagogy based on Noddings’s ethics of care. We identify six components within the instructor’s pedagogy: relationship; motivational displacement; person in context; flexibility; engrossment; mentality of care. Students’ expressions of reciprocity suggest possibilities for their own adoption of care and flourishing. We propose that a caring and compassionate approach to pedagogy can be instrumental in mediating a space where students might develop not only intercultural competencies but also a positionality of care.
Keywords:
- intercultural mediation,
- ethics of care,
- intercultural competence,
- pedagogy of care,
- COVID-19
Résumé
Les perturbations causées par la pandémie COVID-19 ont révélé de façon nouvelle les vulnérabilités du sentiment de soi des étudiant.e.s, en particulier évidentes dans les contextes d’orientations interculturelles de l’enseignement des langues, dans lesquelles l’autoréflexion critique peut être potentiellement désorientante pour les apprenant.e.s. Nous proposons une pédagogie de la bienveillance pour gérer une telle décentration, afin de former des communautés de pratique bienveillantes pour promouvoir l’épanouissement des étudiant.e.s. Nos données proviennent d’un cours de formation des enseignant.e.s sur les orientations interculturelles de l’enseignement des langues, enseigné virtuellement en 2020. Nous avons analysé les échanges de courriels et transcrit les séances de séances de cours sur Zoom pour examiner la pédagogie de l’enseignent.e sur la base de l’éthique de bienveillance de Noddings. Nous identifions six composantes dans la pédagogie de la professeure : la relation, le déplacement motivationnel, la personne dans le contexte, la flexibilité, l’engagement et la “mentalité” de la bienveillance. Les expressions de réciprocité des étudiant.e.s suggèrent des possibilités pour leur adoption de bienveillance et d’épanouissement. Nous proposons qu’une approche pédagogique bienveillante et compatissante puisse contribuer à créer un espace où les étudiants peuvent développer non seulement des compétences interculturelles, mais aussi une positionalité de bienveillance.
Mots-clés :
- la médiation culturelle,
- l'éthique de la bienveillance,
- la compétence interculturelle,
- la pédagogie de la bienveillance,
- COVID-19
Appendices
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