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Languages for Sustainability:
Why We Must Take the
Opportunities
John Canning, LLAS Centre for
Languages, Linguistics and Area
Studies, University of Southampton
Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at
University: Enhancing the Learning Experience
through Student Engagement, 28th June 2013
1
@johngcanning
GCSE results Day 1992
Preparing for the PhD viva, 2002
2
Former education minister Sir
Rhodes Boyson (1925-2012) on BBC
news
All getting easier
•
Things to embed in your teaching
• Employability
• Key skills
• Entrepreneurship
• Commercial
awareness
• Critical thinking
• Sustainable
development
• Study skills
• Citizenship
• Ethics
• Intercultural
competence
• Numeracy
• Social responsibility
• Plus many more…
3
Competent men
4
• Sherlock Holmes
• Jeeves
Angus MacGyver (US TV
character)
5
Knowledge of English, French,
German, Russian, Italian and
American Sign Language.
Fly a plane, pilot a helicopter, ride a
jet ski, pick a lock, , defuse a bomb,
play the guitar, defeat bad guys
with his bare hands, negotiate
peace.
Can get out of tricky situations by
combining his quick thinking skills
with his equipment (a Swiss army
knife, roll of duct tape, paper clip
and whatever else he can scavenge
from his surroundings).
Volunteers for
charity
Visits his Grandad
Lampooned on The Simpsons
• Man: Thank you, Senor MacGyver, for
saving our village.
• MacGyver: Don't thank me, thank the
Moon's gravitational pull.
• Selma: That MacGyver's a genius.
• Sideshow Bob: First of all, he's not a
genius, he's an actor, and second, he's
not *much* of an actor.
• Selma: You're lying! You're lying!
• Sideshow Bob: No Selma, this is lying:
that was a well-plotted piece of
nonclaptrap that never made me want
to retch.
6
What should every graduate
know?*
• 1. Basic probability and
statistics.
2. Basic social psychology
principles, enough not to
get suckered by con
artists and manipulative
politicians.
• 3. Basic micro and macro
economics
• 4. Basic understanding of
American government
• 55. Understanding of the
scientific method, error
and uncertainty.
• 6. Elvis Costello.
• 7. How credit
works, how to make a
budget, and basic
financial planning skills.
• 8. Where food actually
comes from and how to
get it yourself.
7
g
*Chronicle of Higher Education forums, 2013 www.chronicle.com
• 9. A course in Decision
Theory, covering:
- Some elementary game
theory
- Learn about heuristics
and biases.
- How is the mind tricked
into making certain
decisions?
- Do we have inherent
preferences, or are they
constructed as we face
choices?
- What are loss aversion
and probability
weighting? i.e. why do
people buy both
insurance and lottery
tickets?
• 10. Etiquette.
• 11. Pass the test to grant
citizenship to foreign
nationals
• 12. be able to read and
understand a semi-literate
news magazine cover to
cover (i.e. Time; Newsweek)
• 13. Understand the basics
of world geography
• 14. Change tyres and oil on
car
• 15. Basic first aid.
• 16. Basic chemistry (not be
taken in by claims about
water and skin creams).
8
And
17. Learn another
language
9
1950s and 1960s
Not total prosperity for all, but university education offered.
• Free university tuition with maintenance grants
• Increased life expectancy
• Final salary pensions
• Low house price to income ratios
• Universal benefits at 60 plus. E.g. bus passes
• Early retirement
• Parents and grandparents of today’s 18-25 year old students.
• Intergeneration conflict becoming more important than class
conflict?????????? 10
“Never had it so good”.
• You will see a state of prosperity such as
we have never had in my lifetime - nor
indeed in the history of this country.
Indeed let us be frank about it - most of
our people have never had it so good. –
Prime Minister Harold MacMillian
speaking in 1957.
• Post-War economic boom, growth in car
ownership. Extensive house building.
Higher wages, Increased production. 11
Challenges for present and
future generations
• Affordability of housing
• Lower wages
• Unpaid and paid-for internships
• Pension uncertainty
• Aging/ growing population
• Graduate unemployment and
underemployment
12
• Graduate/ non-Graduate social/ economic
divide.
• Public spending cuts
• Climate change
• Living sustainability
• Global poverty
• AIDS
13
Time for difficult questions:
What do our language students need to know for
their future lives?
Does our curriculum equip students with what
they need?
What is the role of the individual teacher?
Whose responsibility is it? Teacher? Student?
University? Government? Other?
How so we make our students responsible to
future generations?
14
One way to go
• More of the same
• Traditional disciplinary concerns…
• That’s not my job…
• Sounds very interesting but…
• Research into X is where it is at…
• Not part of what we do…
• The students aren’t as good as they used to
be…
• I don’t know anything about
economics, business, marketing, environmenta
l science
• Nobody listens to me anyway.
15
Another way to go
• Innovation and change
• Let’s make this our concern
• I don’t know about ‘X’ but I’ll learn
• I have an ethical duty to future generations
• How can we fix this problem?
• What can I/ my students contribute?
• These other people have it wrong. I must help
them.
16
A big challenge
• Increase global temperatures
• Rising sea levels
• Coastal erosion
• Declining biodiversity
• Climate change migration
• Increasing global population
• AIDS epidemic
• Lets make these concerns for languages.
17
Global and local sustainability
• Interdisciplinary module available to all
Southampton students
• BUT majority of students Environmental Science,
geography and related.
18
Module aims
1. To explore the range of contested definitions of sustainable
development.
2. To apply sustainable development in the context of the
home academic discipline of all students and relate to other
areas of study.
3. To investigate the relationship between the range of
stakeholders involved in the application of sustainable
development in local, national and global policy.
4. To explore how different academic disciplines can contribute
to the goal of sustainable development.
5. To demonstrate the diverse range of leading sustainability
research taking place across the University of Southampton.
6. To develop an agreed set of Sustainable Development Goals
through participation in a Student Sustainable Development
Summit.
7. To apply emerging multimedia and social networking
techniques in the development and distribution of a series of
sustainability films
8. To produce a set of Sustainability Conference Season
Proceedings.
19
Languages content
• Case studies approach
• Capel Celyn, Wales. Reservoir
• James Bay, Quebec. Hydro-Electric Dam
20
Capel Ceyln
• 1 August 1957: Liverpool Corporation Act:
Submergence of Capel Celyn near Bala to supply
water to Liverpool.
• Reservoir completed 1965
• 35/36 Welsh MP’s opposed the bill (one did not
vote)
• 2005: Official apology from Liverpool City
Council
21
22
23
1 mile or 1.61km
Capel Celyn
• Capel Celyn was about more than Capel Celyn.
• Predominantly Welsh-speaking community at a
time when numbers speaking the language were
decreasing.
• Illustrated that the politicians of Wales as a
whole were powerless against the water needs
of a large English city, even if they were all
united.
• People of the village had no power to stop their
homes from being submerged under water.
• One choice they did have was whether they
wanted to dig up their relatives in the graveyard
and bury them elsewhere.
24
James Bay, Quebec: Hydro-
electric dam
• Work started early 1970s work started on the James Bay
hydro-electric project in the Canadian Province of Quebec.
The dam lies over 1000km north of Montreal, the largest city
in the Quebec.
• Population of Quebec approx. 7 million
• Territory three times the size of France
• 90% of whom live along the St Lawrence river, most within
about 150km of the US border.
• The Northern two-thirds of the Province are home to just
20,000 mostly Cree and Inuit native peoples.
25
26
James Bay
27
Axel Drainville http://tinyurl.com/plz6ybu
Socio-political and cultural context.
• 1960s Quebec went through a rapid period of modernisation
and cultural change known as the “Quiet Revolution” or “La
revolution tranquille”.
• Increasing support for separatism from the Rest of Canada, a
more assertive French language ‘Quebecois identity’
• Desire for economic sovereignty – most industry in Quebec,
energy included, dominated by English Canadian and US
interests.
• assertion of an increasingly confident Quebecois identity. It
also enabled Quebec to have control of its own energy supply.
(This was well illustrated during the North American blackout
of August 2003). 28
Legal challenge
• A legal challenge to the Project meant that work was unable
to go ahead until a legal agreement was put into place
between the Hydro Quebec (owned by the Quebec
government) and local residents.
• The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, signed in
1975, the Native peoples agreed to surrender parts of their
traditional lands to the Quebec government in return for
financial compensation, paid into the three native
development corporations.
• There is still controversy about the extent of the environment
impact but the building of the dams did impact upon
traditional hunting routes and on access to James Bay itself.
29
Language threat and language
death
The death of a language is the death of a language
is ‘a serious loss of inherited knowledge’. David
Crystal Language Death
Some of this knowledge may be about
medicine, agriculture and sustainable living.
Displacing minority linguistic communities is one
of the causes of language death and the effects
are not always understood at the time.
But is the defence of a linguistic or cultural
minority community more defensible than the loss
of other communities? 30
Questions to ponder
• What is lost when a language is threatened or
dies out?
• Is it ethically, morally, culturally ‘different’ if
affected residents speak a different language to
the people development is ‘for’?
• Is it ethically, morally, culturally different if
affected residents speak an endangered
language.
31
Two equal principles
1. The first is that Quebec needs to use the resources of its
territory, all its territory, for the benefit of all its people.
2. The second principle is that we must recognize the
needs of the native peoples, the Crees and the Inuit, who
have a different culture and a different way of life from
those of other peoples of Quebec.
• John Ciaccia MLA , The James Bay and Northern
Quebec Agreement,
• Can these be principles be reconciled?
32
Other language possibilities
• Translation and sustainability
• Literature and sustainability.
• Brecht, Grass, poetry
• Ecolinguistics
• Global warming
• Greenhouse effect
• Developments
33
More questions
• What do language student miss if they don’t
engage with sustainability?
• What do other students miss when they study
sustainability without languages?
• If our ethical responsibilities are to future
generations what does the languages curriculum
look like?
• Innovation: Good innovation, bad
innovation, unnecessary innovation?
34
My conclusions
• We have an ethical responsibility to future
generations
• Do what is important to future generations
• Learn what you need /want to know
• Teach languages and/or language content in
other disciplines/ multidisciplinary context.
• Bring students in, but go out yourself.
• "Be the change you wish to see in the world."
Gandhi 35

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  • 1. Languages for Sustainability: Why We Must Take the Opportunities John Canning, LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, University of Southampton Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Enhancing the Learning Experience through Student Engagement, 28th June 2013 1 @johngcanning
  • 2. GCSE results Day 1992 Preparing for the PhD viva, 2002 2 Former education minister Sir Rhodes Boyson (1925-2012) on BBC news All getting easier •
  • 3. Things to embed in your teaching • Employability • Key skills • Entrepreneurship • Commercial awareness • Critical thinking • Sustainable development • Study skills • Citizenship • Ethics • Intercultural competence • Numeracy • Social responsibility • Plus many more… 3
  • 4. Competent men 4 • Sherlock Holmes • Jeeves
  • 5. Angus MacGyver (US TV character) 5 Knowledge of English, French, German, Russian, Italian and American Sign Language. Fly a plane, pilot a helicopter, ride a jet ski, pick a lock, , defuse a bomb, play the guitar, defeat bad guys with his bare hands, negotiate peace. Can get out of tricky situations by combining his quick thinking skills with his equipment (a Swiss army knife, roll of duct tape, paper clip and whatever else he can scavenge from his surroundings). Volunteers for charity Visits his Grandad
  • 6. Lampooned on The Simpsons • Man: Thank you, Senor MacGyver, for saving our village. • MacGyver: Don't thank me, thank the Moon's gravitational pull. • Selma: That MacGyver's a genius. • Sideshow Bob: First of all, he's not a genius, he's an actor, and second, he's not *much* of an actor. • Selma: You're lying! You're lying! • Sideshow Bob: No Selma, this is lying: that was a well-plotted piece of nonclaptrap that never made me want to retch. 6
  • 7. What should every graduate know?* • 1. Basic probability and statistics. 2. Basic social psychology principles, enough not to get suckered by con artists and manipulative politicians. • 3. Basic micro and macro economics • 4. Basic understanding of American government • 55. Understanding of the scientific method, error and uncertainty. • 6. Elvis Costello. • 7. How credit works, how to make a budget, and basic financial planning skills. • 8. Where food actually comes from and how to get it yourself. 7 g *Chronicle of Higher Education forums, 2013 www.chronicle.com
  • 8. • 9. A course in Decision Theory, covering: - Some elementary game theory - Learn about heuristics and biases. - How is the mind tricked into making certain decisions? - Do we have inherent preferences, or are they constructed as we face choices? - What are loss aversion and probability weighting? i.e. why do people buy both insurance and lottery tickets? • 10. Etiquette. • 11. Pass the test to grant citizenship to foreign nationals • 12. be able to read and understand a semi-literate news magazine cover to cover (i.e. Time; Newsweek) • 13. Understand the basics of world geography • 14. Change tyres and oil on car • 15. Basic first aid. • 16. Basic chemistry (not be taken in by claims about water and skin creams). 8
  • 10. 1950s and 1960s Not total prosperity for all, but university education offered. • Free university tuition with maintenance grants • Increased life expectancy • Final salary pensions • Low house price to income ratios • Universal benefits at 60 plus. E.g. bus passes • Early retirement • Parents and grandparents of today’s 18-25 year old students. • Intergeneration conflict becoming more important than class conflict?????????? 10
  • 11. “Never had it so good”. • You will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my lifetime - nor indeed in the history of this country. Indeed let us be frank about it - most of our people have never had it so good. – Prime Minister Harold MacMillian speaking in 1957. • Post-War economic boom, growth in car ownership. Extensive house building. Higher wages, Increased production. 11
  • 12. Challenges for present and future generations • Affordability of housing • Lower wages • Unpaid and paid-for internships • Pension uncertainty • Aging/ growing population • Graduate unemployment and underemployment 12
  • 13. • Graduate/ non-Graduate social/ economic divide. • Public spending cuts • Climate change • Living sustainability • Global poverty • AIDS 13
  • 14. Time for difficult questions: What do our language students need to know for their future lives? Does our curriculum equip students with what they need? What is the role of the individual teacher? Whose responsibility is it? Teacher? Student? University? Government? Other? How so we make our students responsible to future generations? 14
  • 15. One way to go • More of the same • Traditional disciplinary concerns… • That’s not my job… • Sounds very interesting but… • Research into X is where it is at… • Not part of what we do… • The students aren’t as good as they used to be… • I don’t know anything about economics, business, marketing, environmenta l science • Nobody listens to me anyway. 15
  • 16. Another way to go • Innovation and change • Let’s make this our concern • I don’t know about ‘X’ but I’ll learn • I have an ethical duty to future generations • How can we fix this problem? • What can I/ my students contribute? • These other people have it wrong. I must help them. 16
  • 17. A big challenge • Increase global temperatures • Rising sea levels • Coastal erosion • Declining biodiversity • Climate change migration • Increasing global population • AIDS epidemic • Lets make these concerns for languages. 17
  • 18. Global and local sustainability • Interdisciplinary module available to all Southampton students • BUT majority of students Environmental Science, geography and related. 18
  • 19. Module aims 1. To explore the range of contested definitions of sustainable development. 2. To apply sustainable development in the context of the home academic discipline of all students and relate to other areas of study. 3. To investigate the relationship between the range of stakeholders involved in the application of sustainable development in local, national and global policy. 4. To explore how different academic disciplines can contribute to the goal of sustainable development. 5. To demonstrate the diverse range of leading sustainability research taking place across the University of Southampton. 6. To develop an agreed set of Sustainable Development Goals through participation in a Student Sustainable Development Summit. 7. To apply emerging multimedia and social networking techniques in the development and distribution of a series of sustainability films 8. To produce a set of Sustainability Conference Season Proceedings. 19
  • 20. Languages content • Case studies approach • Capel Celyn, Wales. Reservoir • James Bay, Quebec. Hydro-Electric Dam 20
  • 21. Capel Ceyln • 1 August 1957: Liverpool Corporation Act: Submergence of Capel Celyn near Bala to supply water to Liverpool. • Reservoir completed 1965 • 35/36 Welsh MP’s opposed the bill (one did not vote) • 2005: Official apology from Liverpool City Council 21
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  • 24. Capel Celyn • Capel Celyn was about more than Capel Celyn. • Predominantly Welsh-speaking community at a time when numbers speaking the language were decreasing. • Illustrated that the politicians of Wales as a whole were powerless against the water needs of a large English city, even if they were all united. • People of the village had no power to stop their homes from being submerged under water. • One choice they did have was whether they wanted to dig up their relatives in the graveyard and bury them elsewhere. 24
  • 25. James Bay, Quebec: Hydro- electric dam • Work started early 1970s work started on the James Bay hydro-electric project in the Canadian Province of Quebec. The dam lies over 1000km north of Montreal, the largest city in the Quebec. • Population of Quebec approx. 7 million • Territory three times the size of France • 90% of whom live along the St Lawrence river, most within about 150km of the US border. • The Northern two-thirds of the Province are home to just 20,000 mostly Cree and Inuit native peoples. 25
  • 28. Socio-political and cultural context. • 1960s Quebec went through a rapid period of modernisation and cultural change known as the “Quiet Revolution” or “La revolution tranquille”. • Increasing support for separatism from the Rest of Canada, a more assertive French language ‘Quebecois identity’ • Desire for economic sovereignty – most industry in Quebec, energy included, dominated by English Canadian and US interests. • assertion of an increasingly confident Quebecois identity. It also enabled Quebec to have control of its own energy supply. (This was well illustrated during the North American blackout of August 2003). 28
  • 29. Legal challenge • A legal challenge to the Project meant that work was unable to go ahead until a legal agreement was put into place between the Hydro Quebec (owned by the Quebec government) and local residents. • The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, signed in 1975, the Native peoples agreed to surrender parts of their traditional lands to the Quebec government in return for financial compensation, paid into the three native development corporations. • There is still controversy about the extent of the environment impact but the building of the dams did impact upon traditional hunting routes and on access to James Bay itself. 29
  • 30. Language threat and language death The death of a language is the death of a language is ‘a serious loss of inherited knowledge’. David Crystal Language Death Some of this knowledge may be about medicine, agriculture and sustainable living. Displacing minority linguistic communities is one of the causes of language death and the effects are not always understood at the time. But is the defence of a linguistic or cultural minority community more defensible than the loss of other communities? 30
  • 31. Questions to ponder • What is lost when a language is threatened or dies out? • Is it ethically, morally, culturally ‘different’ if affected residents speak a different language to the people development is ‘for’? • Is it ethically, morally, culturally different if affected residents speak an endangered language. 31
  • 32. Two equal principles 1. The first is that Quebec needs to use the resources of its territory, all its territory, for the benefit of all its people. 2. The second principle is that we must recognize the needs of the native peoples, the Crees and the Inuit, who have a different culture and a different way of life from those of other peoples of Quebec. • John Ciaccia MLA , The James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement, • Can these be principles be reconciled? 32
  • 33. Other language possibilities • Translation and sustainability • Literature and sustainability. • Brecht, Grass, poetry • Ecolinguistics • Global warming • Greenhouse effect • Developments 33
  • 34. More questions • What do language student miss if they don’t engage with sustainability? • What do other students miss when they study sustainability without languages? • If our ethical responsibilities are to future generations what does the languages curriculum look like? • Innovation: Good innovation, bad innovation, unnecessary innovation? 34
  • 35. My conclusions • We have an ethical responsibility to future generations • Do what is important to future generations • Learn what you need /want to know • Teach languages and/or language content in other disciplines/ multidisciplinary context. • Bring students in, but go out yourself. • "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi 35