Developing Cosmopolitanism Through Intercultural Mediation Activities: An After-School Digital Storytelling Project in Catalonia

Miaomiao Zhang

doi:10.17533/udea.ikala.352092

Autores/as

Miaomiao Zhang Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0279-2999

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.352092

Palabras clave:

narrativa digital, fondos de conocimiento, cosmopolitismo, mediación intercultural

Resumen

En este artículo se analizan las interacciones, en un extracurricular proyecto de narrativa digital, entre un grupo de adolescentes de Cataluña, España, provenientes de distintos contextos lingüísticos y culturales. El artículo se centra en las actividades de mediación intercultural realizadas en una de las primeras sesiones del proyecto, en la cual una joven de origen ghanés moviliza su experiencia de vida para mediar, para sus compañeros de Cataluña, la comprensión de un video producido por jóvenes ugandeses. Los datos se transcriben y se analizan mediante un enfoque de análisis conversacional multimodal. Con base en los conceptos teóricos de mediación intercultural, cosmopolitismo y fondos de conocimiento, en este artículo se investigan los siguientes aspectos: 1) la manera en que la joven moviliza sus fondos de conocimiento para mediar el contenido del video para los demás espectadores, y 2) la manera en que el cosmopolitismo se desarrolla a través de la mediación intercultural. El artículo también describe cómo la mediación intercultural se construye de forma colaborativa entre modos, lenguas y objetos materiales. Los resultados indican que la mediación intercultural posibilita y promueve las posturas cosmopolitas de los jóvenes participantes, pues estos comprenden conceptos culturales que no podrían asir del mismo modo por sí solos. Los resultados también ayudan a reconceptualizar los conocimientos, competencias y recursos de los jóvenes en un mundo superdiverso e interconectado.

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Biografía del autor/a

Miaomiao Zhang, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Doctoranda, Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua, la Literatura y las Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Sardañola del Vallés, España.

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