Performative Language Learning with Refugees and Migrants: Embodied Research and Practice in the Sorgente Project [Paperback]

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

Documenting a community-based project  funded by the Irish Research Council and conducted with three groups of refugees and migrants in Ireland and Italy  the book explores the methodological, pedagogical and ethical elements of performative language learning in the context of migration. Written by a team of arts-based researchers and practitioners, chapters discuss findings from the project that relate to factors such as embodied research methods, a motivation to belong and the ethical imagination, while exhibiting how performative language pedagogy can be effective in supporting children and adults in a range of challenging contexts.

Offering a poetic and pictorial representation of the Sorgente Project, this book will be of interest to postgraduate students, researchers and academics in the fields of English language arts and literacy education, drama in education, the sociology of education and second language acquisition more broadly. Those working in refugee and migrant studies, and teacher education studies will also find the volume of use.

A refreshing outlook on arts-based practices through an eclectic collection. This book will make you think differently about taking risks and being brave, and the value of practice as research. The authors don't shy away from the challenges of multilingual work in their exploration of ethical dilemmas when using arts-based methodologies across diverse (forced) migration contextl¢