International perspectives on Learning and Teaching

The Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL) is pleased to announce its spring 2017 edition of Voicebox focusing on Internationalisation. Sebastien Cadinot, Director of CEWL, says the publication reflects how ‘we approach learning and how our educational culture influences our interactions in and out of the classroom’. It includes several articles from teaching staff who have recently had the opportunity to travel and teach  in countries such as Finland, Italy and India and explore international perspectives on Learning and Teaching. Of particular interest is the article on Finnish pedagogy written by Rebecca Coleman, EAP tutor, who taught for a week at the University of Helsinki where a negotiated syllabus is the norm and ‘the power of thought’ is strongly encouraged. For the EAP tutors that taught in Italy (Jonathan Fitchett) and India (Trisha Spencer and Charlene Earl), it is evident that the students seemed to enjoy a more communicative approach in terms of pedagogy which interestingly corresponds with the methodology we employ with our international students here at CEWL.  For more VoiceBox articles, please click the following link: https://www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/about/voicebox.html