(Inter)cultural production as public pedagogy: weaving art, interculturality and civic learning in a community festival context

ABSTRACT

Informed by the notions of public pedagogy, cultural production as civic/political participation, and the multiliteracies perspective, this article explores the connection between (inter)cultural/art production, public pedagogy, and civic education in a community festival setting in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Drawing upon three examples of cultural production from the interviewing and participating observation data, we demonstrate how festival participants’ engagement with such (inter)cultural practices (1) actualizes their pursuit of civic and political action, (2) develops 'connected civic learning' and (inter)cultural citizenship experiences and learning, and (3) enables them to become critical designers/citizens.

摘要

本文以公共教育，文化创生/公民、政治参与，和多元素质视角为理论基础，探讨跨文化/艺术创生，公共教育，以及公民教育的相互关系。以一个社区文化节为例，本研究通过采访和参与观察收集的数据，列举了文化节参与者如何在多模态文化、艺术创生过程中进行积极，批判性意义建构。我们认为这样的跨文化创生实践实现1)参与者公民和政治参与诉求，2)互联学习和跨文化公民体验，3)让社区居民成为具有批判能力的文化主体和设计者。

KEYWORDS:

• Public pedagogy
• (inter)cultural production
• civic learning
• community festival

关键字:

• 公共教育
• 跨文化创生
• 公民学习
• 社区文化节

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Jing Li is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Her research interests focus on critical public pedagogies, multiliteracies in multilingual contexts, linguistic landscaping, and Academic English literacy.

Danièle Moore, PhD, is a Professor in educational sociolinguistics at the Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and a Research Director at the Sorbonne University, France. She has published extensively on issues related to language acquisition, bilingualism, curriculum development and teacher training in multicultural contexts. She is a co-Editor of the bilingual journal The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, and Recherches et application/Le Français dans le Monde.

Notes

1 Resurgence is often used to refer to Indigenous peoples exercising powers of self-determination, and efforts towards the revitalization of Indigenous languages and ways of knowing. Reconciliation embodies the transformative existential mode of being with one another (see Asch et al., 2018 for a nuanced discussion of these terms and their inter-relations).