Re-imagining the Classroom through Social Justice Projects: Portraying Student´Attitudes

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Main Author: Chaves, Olga
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica 2015
Online Access:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/dialogo/article/view/7426
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spelling DIALOGO74262016-06-21T22:24:14Z Re-imagining the Classroom through Social Justice Projects: Portraying Student´Attitudes Chaves, Olga global education social issues EFL learners attitudes This paper analyses Costa Rica college EFL learners' attitudes and challenges when conducting social awareness projects as an initiative in an English course. The Think, Share and Act (TSA) project was initiated in January, 2009 with 57 students from different major at Universidad Nacional de Heredia. The students worked for about three months in planning and conducting the project in different settings. Students are given  the opportunity to learn about different global issues, reflect on and discuss them, share their knowledge and experiences related to these concerns and even come up with possible action plans for social problems. The research concludes that these projects heighten interest in researching solcial issues, enhance social and linguistic skills and improve problem solving and leardership skills which grow levels of motivation to carry out humanitarian projects. Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica 2015-06-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/dialogo/article/view/7426 Universidad en Diálogo: Revista de Extensión; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2015): Universidad en Diálogo. Revista de Extensión (Enero-junio); 15-29 Universidad en Diálogo: Revista de Extensión; Vol. 5 Núm. 1 (2015): Universidad en Diálogo. Revista de Extensión (Enero-junio); 15-29 Universidad en Diálogo: Revista de Extensión; v. 5 n. 1 (2015): Universidad en Diálogo. Revista de Extensión (Enero-junio); 15-29 2215-4752 2215-2849 spa https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/dialogo/article/view/7426/7666
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title_short Re-imagining the Classroom through Social Justice Projects: Portraying Student´Attitudes
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