Intercultural studies in second language education

• To investigate practices and approaches to intercultural education and citizenship education, and its assessment, in second language education in Portugal;
• To examine the role of literature (including non-canonical texts such as illustrated narratives) and multiliteracy practices in supporting intercultural education and citizenship education;
• To engage in international exchanges, teaching experience and dialogue with colleagues who work in cognate areas of academic expertise.
• To collaborate in research projects within the MA and PhD programmes in language education.
• To strengthen contacts and cooperation with colleagues who work within second language education and citizenship education;
• To promote joint actions (projects; Erasmus exchanges) with a view to comparing multiple contexts (methodologies; teacher education; teaching practice; curricula; resources);
• To explore new possibilities of intercultural analysis within the scope of comparative studies.

Council of Europe (2017). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages – Learning, Teaching, Assessment. Companion volume with new descriptors. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.

Council of Europe (2016). Competences for Democratic Culture: Living together as equals in culturally diverse democratic societies. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.

Byram, M. (2014) ‘Twenty-five years on – from cultural studies to intercultural citizenship’, Language, culture and curriculum, 27 (3). pp. 209-225.

Guilherme, M. & G. Dietz (2015) Difference in diversity: multiple perspectives on multicultural, intercultural, and transcultural conceptual complexities, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 10:1, 1-21.

Higher education institutions

Engaging in international exchanges, teaching experience and dialogue with colleagues who work in cognate areas of academic expertise:

• Faculty of Education, Universität Hamburg, Germany
• Departamento de Estudos Ibéricos e Ibero-americanos da Universidade de Varsóvia, Polónia
• University of Heidelberg, Germany
• University of Liverpool, UK

Associations/organisations

• NECE (Networking European Citizenship Education, supported by bpb, Germany)
• SDSA (School Development Support Agency, Leicester, UK)

PEPELT (Picturebooks in European Primary English Language Teaching) 
An initiative by Sandie Mourao, Tatia Gruenbaum, Gail Ellis & Anneta Sadowska to support & promote teaching primary English by means of picturebooks:  https://www.facebook.com/PEPELT21/

• Preparation of special issue for Language and Intercultural Communication (SCOPUS indexed) LAIC 20.3, Special issue: “Art matters in languages and intercultural (citizenship) education”; guest editors: Ana Gonçalves Matos (FCSH/NOVA) & Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer (University of Hamburg, Germany): https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=specialIssues&journalCode=rmli20

• Preparation of book publication (international): (2019). Literature and Intercultural Learning in Language and Teacher Education, Peter Lang

• NECE (Networking European Citizenship Education) focus group on “Hard-to-reach learners and youth”, 2013-2016 (supported by the German federal agency for civic education : bpb-Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung). http://www.bpb.de/veranstaltungen/netzwerke/nece/155654/all-in-network

• (2016-2017) colaboration with the European Project “Intercultural Communicative Competence. A competitive advantage for global employability” (ICCAGE), co-financed by Erasmus+. http://iccageproject.wixsite.com/presentation.

International projects

Recently submitted proposals :

• Erasmus+
  • Project Title: Intercultural and Global Citizenship Education (INCITE)
  • Action: Strategic Partnerships for higher education (KA203) Call for proposals: 2019
  • Applicant organization: FCSH / NOVA CETAPS
• Erasmus+
  • Project Title: Creative Approaches to New Democracy through Innovative Inclusive Citizenship Education (CANDIICE)
  • Applicant organization: School Development Support Agency (SDSA), Leicester, UK
  • Non-governmental organisation
• Erasmus+
  • Project Title: Intercultural Citizenship Education through Picturebooks in early English Language Learning (ICEPELL )
  • Applicant organization: FCSH / NOVA CETAPS
• COST [Proposal in-progress]
  • Culture in the teaching-learning of foreign languages
  • Professor Thomas Szende,
  • Director of the Plidam Research Laboratory, Inalco, Paris, France

ALL=IN Citizenship Learning for Inclusion and Diversity (supported by NECE&SDSA)

The All = In Pathfinder is an interactive, online multiple choice quiz that helps you to think through some tricky issues and then suggests some links and resources that you may find useful for your work teaching citizenship.

The video sets out some challenging issues and questions for teachers. Together with these training activities, we hope it will encourage colleagues to reflect on their practice and improve their work promoting human rights, participative democracy and equity in the increasingly diverse communities of Europe: http://allinnetwork.eu/animation/

• How are we teaching citizenship? Watch the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=McnG1RNDM9s
• The video sets out some challenging issues and questions for teachers. Here you can find some teaching activities: http://allinnetwork.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Animation-Pack-040918.pdf

Together with these training activities, we hope it will encourage colleagues to reflect on their practice and improve their work promoting human rights, participative democracy and equity in the increasingly diverse communities of Europe.

ReCles.pt 2019 International conference | 3 – 4 October 2019 | University of Algarve

Approaches to Teaching and Learning Languages for Specific Purposes: Building bridges across the classroom and the professional world.

Picturebooks and graphic narratives in the classroom (one-day conference), February, 27, 2018, NOVA FCSH/CETAPS

Workshop sobre o projecto europeu, BOYS READING, Prof Doutora Margarida Morgado, 12 de Maio, 2016, NOVA FCSH/CETAPS.

Open seminar, “The potential of literary negotiation”, Prof. Doutora Elisabeth Bracker, Universidade de Hamburgo, 18:00 – 22:00, 17 de Novembro, 2016, NOVA FCSH/CETAPS.

Open seminar, Intercultural, interculturalism or interculturalidad(e)? ‘Glocal languages’ in higher education in Brazil, Prof. Doutora Manuela Guilherme, Marie Curie Research Fellow, 18:00 – 22:00, 4 de Fevereiro, 2016, NOVA FCSH/CETAPS.