Who: Dr. Sepideh Fotovatian
When: Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Where: Ponderosa Commons Multipurpose Room (2012)
Title: Creating “Third Space” in International Teacher Education Programs: Reflections on Pedagogy Meshing
Abstract and Biography:
Sepideh has PhD in TESOL from Monash University. Since her graduation in 2012, she has worked as lecturer and program coordinator with SFU where she has taught courses on second language learning and education and sociocultural theory and identity; and has also supervised graduate students. Sepideh’s research focuses on the ties between language use and integration, pedagogy meshing, and institutional identity. Her research has been published in journals such as Higher Education Research and Development, Teaching in Higher Education, and Globalization, Language, and Society. Sepideh is the author of a chapter on “Narratives of Integration” in Work, learning and transnational migration: Opportunities, challenges and debates, Routledge (2016).
In her presentation, Sepideh will draw on her experience working with international TESOL student teachers to discuss the role of teacher education programs in creating “third spaces” in pedagogy. She reflects on ways to afford agentive discursive positions for international student teachers to participate in a critique of native speaker ideology in recreating the TESOL field.