‘Material Culture’: exploring a range of strategies that seek to enhance Year 7 students’ intercultural awareness through the communicative lens of Textile Design
Maya Dunn
(PGCE Secondary Design & Technology, 2019-2020)
Email: md856@cantab.ac.uk
Abstract
‘Material Culture’ encapsulates a classroom-based action research study, which aims to enhance Year 7 students’ understandings of cultural identity and migration, in order to encourage a heightened ‘intercultural awareness’. Ultimately, this research intends to engender tolerance amongst participants, and to aid ‘BAME’ inclusion, by providing an insight into cross-cultural issues. This study simultaneously seeks to challenge students’ preconceptions of Textile Design (hence the wordplay for its title); advocating this as a communicative medium, employing both narrative and metaphor, and as a means of exploring important sociocultural concepts. The classroom intervention discussed in this paper was implemented in a Design & Technology classroom within a state-funded secondary school, situated in a semi-rural area of the United Kingdom.
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Citation: Dunn, M. (2021) '‘Material Culture’: exploring a range of strategies that seek to enhance Year 7 students’ intercultural awareness through the communicative lens of Textile Design'. Journal of Trainee Teacher Educational Research, Volume 12 pp.609-642 (Downloaded from http://jotter.educ.cam.ac.uk/, [date of access])