%0 Journal Article 
%A Braselmann, Silke
%A Glas, Katharina
%A Volkmann, Laurenz
%T Ecology, cultural awareness, anti-racism and critical thinking: integrating multiple perspectives in foreign language teaching
%D 2021
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/47830
%X This paper aims at presenting a critical approach to teaching ecological, postcolonial and ethnic 
minority topics in the (foreign language) classroom, describing the need to interrelate these three issues in 
both research and teaching. It illustrates how Western utilitarian perspectives on both humans and nature 
must be counterbalanced with alternative stances, such as those provided by indigenous views of 
reciprocity. With regard to teaching scenarios, it suggests the use of multi-text selections in line with the 
principle of presenting multiple perspectives on global issues. It suggests that two seemingly contradictory 
teaching/learning objectives can be combined: bolstering up students’ empathetic skills in understanding 
ecological and interculturally relevant issues on the one hand and becoming critically aware of textual 
strategies employed to manipulate readers. We use the hitherto less frequently observed example of the 
demands of the Chilean indigenous minority of the Mapuche to illustrate how different positions published 
in the English language on the Internet can be used in the foreign language classroom to discuss the issues at stake here: the inextricable interrelatedness of ecological exploitation of natural resources with 
processes of sociocultural and economic marginalisation and oppression of ethnic minority groups and 
their worldviews across the globe.

%K Indigenous studies
%K Postcolonial criticism
%K Interculturalidad
%K Ecopedagogy
%K EFL teaching/ learning.
%K Estudios indígenas
%K Crítica postcolonial
%K Interculturalidad
%K Ecopedagogía
%K Enseñanza y  aprendizaje del inglés como lengua extranjera
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala