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Language and Intercultural 
Education 
Dr. Alan Bruce 
Mayte Martin 
ULS Dublin 
ICT 4LL Conference 
Florence, Italy 
13 November 2014.
overview 
• Connection between language learning, intercultural 
education and lifelong learning 
• Languages in historic and social space 
• Conceptual space vs. economic and political 
advantage 
• Language: culture, conquest, assimilation
Languages and social power
Language and status 
• Alienating and degrading some social groups 
• Power and domination of ‘superior’ language 
• Tool of domination and repression 
• Subtle, unconscious and insidious use of language 
to act as badge of superiority/inferiority 
• Awareness of what language represents 
• Looking at the Irish language
Language and culture 
• Socio-cultural knowledge 
• Intercultural education and social cohesion 
• From mobility to globalized markets 
• Survival in the migratory world 
• Asserting identity – and rights
Mobility in Europe?
Impact of migration 
• Numerous languages spoken by new clients 
overwhelm services. 
• Lack of linguistic access can be discriminatory 
• Cultural competence in a changing Ireland 
• Training, awareness and integration – the Irish 
journey
contested identity 
• Contested space – uncertain identity 
• Inclusion in what? 
• From ‘non-national’ to citizen 
• Legacies of inferiority – the colonial impact 
• Uncertain welcome – crisis 
• Frame of mind regarding reception of the Other 
• Reality of two pre-existing languages
Irish linguistic map
Tracing irish 
• Ancient Celtic language 
• Rich bardic tradition, poetry and literary heritage 
• Dispossessed Gaelic aristocracy in 17th century 
• Replaced as language of Church and governance 
• Criminalization and mark of discrimination 
• Impact of Great Famine 1846-49
Policy in crisis: the 19th Century 
National School system (1831) 
Resistance and segregation 
Identity and revolution 
The tidal wave of emigration 
Partition and religion
Understanding the colony 
• Contradiction and ambivalence: ownership and 
identity 
• Albert Memmi – colonizer and colonized 
• Guilt, humiliation and long memory 
• Derivative imitation and conflict 
the slights, the wrongs, 
the long indignities 
the stubborn core within each heart defies 
John Hewitt
The murder machine 
• Intersection with official schooling system 
• Learning by rote and memorization 
• Terminal examinations, equity and academic 
streaming 
• Vocational Education Act (1943) 
• Towards a new vision: language, ICT and primary 
reform 
• Inward migration and emancipatory learning
Diversity imperatives 
• Radical re-structuring of world economy 
• Interconnected information/communication 
• Differential access to resources 
• Professional competence 
• Dealing with transformational change 
• Ensuring recognition and respect
opportunities 
• Agreed definition of multicultural 
• Adjustment and accommodation 
• Melting pot or mosaic 
• Separate development 
• Beliefs, values and practices 
• Symbols, language and behaviour
Challenges 
• Mutual interaction or structured exclusion? 
• Community values or communal rituals? 
• Linkage to realities or past models? 
• Shared memories or shared hatreds?
Interculturalism 
• Interaction 
• Empathy 
• Communication 
• Knowledge 
• Removal of prejudice 
• Linked themes: gender, power, violence, values
Thank you 
Alan Bruce 
abruce@ulsystems.com 
Mayte Martín 
maytecalvo@gmail.com 
ULS: DUBLIN – HELSINKI – AMSTERDAM - CHICAGO 
www.ulsystems.com

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Language and Intercultural Education

  • 1. Language and Intercultural Education Dr. Alan Bruce Mayte Martin ULS Dublin ICT 4LL Conference Florence, Italy 13 November 2014.
  • 2. overview • Connection between language learning, intercultural education and lifelong learning • Languages in historic and social space • Conceptual space vs. economic and political advantage • Language: culture, conquest, assimilation
  • 4. Language and status • Alienating and degrading some social groups • Power and domination of ‘superior’ language • Tool of domination and repression • Subtle, unconscious and insidious use of language to act as badge of superiority/inferiority • Awareness of what language represents • Looking at the Irish language
  • 5. Language and culture • Socio-cultural knowledge • Intercultural education and social cohesion • From mobility to globalized markets • Survival in the migratory world • Asserting identity – and rights
  • 7. Impact of migration • Numerous languages spoken by new clients overwhelm services. • Lack of linguistic access can be discriminatory • Cultural competence in a changing Ireland • Training, awareness and integration – the Irish journey
  • 8. contested identity • Contested space – uncertain identity • Inclusion in what? • From ‘non-national’ to citizen • Legacies of inferiority – the colonial impact • Uncertain welcome – crisis • Frame of mind regarding reception of the Other • Reality of two pre-existing languages
  • 10. Tracing irish • Ancient Celtic language • Rich bardic tradition, poetry and literary heritage • Dispossessed Gaelic aristocracy in 17th century • Replaced as language of Church and governance • Criminalization and mark of discrimination • Impact of Great Famine 1846-49
  • 11. Policy in crisis: the 19th Century National School system (1831) Resistance and segregation Identity and revolution The tidal wave of emigration Partition and religion
  • 12. Understanding the colony • Contradiction and ambivalence: ownership and identity • Albert Memmi – colonizer and colonized • Guilt, humiliation and long memory • Derivative imitation and conflict the slights, the wrongs, the long indignities the stubborn core within each heart defies John Hewitt
  • 13. The murder machine • Intersection with official schooling system • Learning by rote and memorization • Terminal examinations, equity and academic streaming • Vocational Education Act (1943) • Towards a new vision: language, ICT and primary reform • Inward migration and emancipatory learning
  • 14. Diversity imperatives • Radical re-structuring of world economy • Interconnected information/communication • Differential access to resources • Professional competence • Dealing with transformational change • Ensuring recognition and respect
  • 15. opportunities • Agreed definition of multicultural • Adjustment and accommodation • Melting pot or mosaic • Separate development • Beliefs, values and practices • Symbols, language and behaviour
  • 16. Challenges • Mutual interaction or structured exclusion? • Community values or communal rituals? • Linkage to realities or past models? • Shared memories or shared hatreds?
  • 17. Interculturalism • Interaction • Empathy • Communication • Knowledge • Removal of prejudice • Linked themes: gender, power, violence, values
  • 18. Thank you Alan Bruce abruce@ulsystems.com Mayte Martín maytecalvo@gmail.com ULS: DUBLIN – HELSINKI – AMSTERDAM - CHICAGO www.ulsystems.com