Towards a pedagogy of strangeness
| dc.contributor.author | Frimberger, Katja | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Schewe, Manfred | en |
| dc.contributor.editor | Even, Susanne | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-25T08:29:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-25T08:29:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Engagement in depth with a foreign language is a challenging experience. Within the experience, and at a crucial interface – where familiar perspectives are questioned, deconstructed and re-considered – lies an area that I term ‘strangeness’. The word strange has a range of meanings; “outside of”, “alien”, “different”, “unusual”, “exceptional to a degree that excites wonder or astonishment” (OED 1989). The strangeness that resonates within a foreign language reflects several of these definitions; it is multi-faceted, unpredictable, even sometimes unfathomable, but ultimately, I hope to show that it has exciting, life-enriching potential that, like the latter definition above, will elicit wonder and astonishment. This article proposes a ‘pedagogy of strangeness’ in foreign language education that aims to provide some ideas and praxis to help students unlock more of the enriching potential that the study of the subject holds. The term ‘predictable strangeness’ is used critically to describe the conventional approach to teaching language and culture. The idea of ‘unpredictable strangeness’ is employed to elucidate the subtleties that lie especially within an ethnographic approach to foreign language teaching. Theatre and drama concepts that substantially employ strangeness within their work will be shown to have particular relevance to my article. Engagement in depth with a foreign language is a challenging experience. Within the experience, and at a crucial interface – where familiar perspectives are questioned, deconstructed and re-considered – lies an area that I term ‘strangeness’. The word strange has a range of meanings; “outside of”, “alien”, “different”, “unusual”, “exceptional to a degree that excites wonder or astonishment” (OED 1989). The strangeness that resonates within a foreign language reflects several of these definitions; it is multi-faceted, unpredictable, even sometimes unfathomable, but ultimately, I hope to show that it has exciting, life-enriching potential that, like the latter definition above, will elicit wonder and astonishment. This article proposes a ‘pedagogy of strangeness’ in foreign language education that aims to provide some ideas and praxis to help students unlock more of the enriching potential that the study of the subject holds. The term ‘predictable strangeness’ is used critically to describe the conventional approach to teaching language and culture. The idea of ‘unpredictable strangeness’ is employed to elucidate the subtleties that lie especially within an ethnographic approach to foreign language teaching. Theatre and drama concepts that substantially employ strangeness within their work will be shown to have particular relevance to my article. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Frimberger, K. (2009) 'Towards a pedagogy of strangeness', Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, III(1), pp. 34-45. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.3.1.4 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.3.1.4 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 45 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1649-8526 | |
| dc.identifier.issued | 1 | |
| dc.identifier.journalabbrev | Scenario | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 34 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/12983 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | III | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Department of German, University College Cork | en |
| dc.relation.uri | https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-3-1-4 | |
| dc.rights | © 2009, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Towards a pedagogy of strangeness | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
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