Bridging faith, languages and learning in London: a faith teacher reflects upon pedagogy in religious instruction classes
| Autor: | Vally Lytra, Eve E. Gregory, Arani Ilankuberan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Hinduism biology Saiva Dravidian languages media_common.quotation_subject Teaching method 05 social sciences 050301 education 06 humanities and the arts biology.organism_classification Language and Linguistics language.human_language Literacy Education Faith Tamil 0602 languages and literature Pedagogy Religious education language Sociology 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Language and Education. 30:554-569 |
| ISSN: | 1747-7581 0950-0782 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09500782.2016.1221419 |
| Popis: | In this article we examine a faith teacher's reflections on faith literacy teaching and learning and how they shaped his pedagogy in the context of Hindu/Saiva religious instruction classes for students of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage. The data are part of a larger multi-site three-year team ethnography of children's faith literacy learning in places of worship, religious education classes and homes across four ethno-linguistic communities in London (Bangladeshi Muslim, Polish Catholic, Ghanaian Pentecostal and Tamil Hindu/Saiva). In this article, we focus on one of the Hindu/Saiva faith teachers by combining an in-depth semi-structured interview with the teacher in question with participant observations and video-recordings of faith lessons. Drawing on the faith teacher's reflections, we identify the changes in the nature and scope of faith literacy learning across time and in the London diasporic setting and demonstrate how the faith teacher responded to them by adopting flexible language practices where English (the majority language) was used alongside Tamil (the community and devotional language) as a learning resource. The faith teacher's pedagogic approach emerged as a pragmatic and contextual response to the students' diverse capabilities in class, with the purpose of making faith literacy learning accessible and relevant to their lives. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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