1/15/2024 0 Comments Teaching unplugged meaning![]() A bat sign appeared in the sky above the lesson. The learner tried to explain, faltered, kept going. I asked who won and found that it was a little more complicated than that. The learner had been to see it, loves DC Universe stuff, and brought it up. I’ve tried caring less, really I have, but it is actually impossible, making the fact that there developed a forty-minute scaffolded speaking activity about the film a seeming contradiction. I concede here, in front of these witnesses, that I know very very little about Batman vs Superman because I could not care less about Batman vs Superman. Bat what? Bat who? What’s a Gotham? Who Cares? I can’t be Anthony if there is no Cleopatra, but I could be Bogart to your Bacall, or Superman to your Batman. It’s not that I’m hiding anything I’m just presenting another self because the stage has changed and the audience is different. I perform a self and put on a face in each instance, one I feel is the best fit for the social context. So who I am when I teach is not who I am when I write this, work on a CELTA or Delta or meet a new colleague for the first time. Or, in teaching terms, to get them to ELTPics A person does this for a number of reasons, such as wanting “ to think highly of him, or to think that he thinks highly of them, or to perceive how in fact he feels towards them… he may wish to ensure sufficient harmony so that the interaction can be sustained, or to defraud… or insult them.”². Thus, all of us have a lot of selves and we choose which one we wish those around us to see, depending on the situation we’re in. ![]() In it, Goffman argues that an individual presents themselves to the outside world to try shape the way they are in turn perceived. ![]() In 1957, Erving Goffman published his book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life. So where did I learn about them? Not from New Cutting Edge or Business Result, not from meticulous lesson preparation or seriously bespoke planning, nor from the estimable onestopenglish or Reward McNuggets Intermediate Resource Pack, but from the remarkably able source of… my students. What do The Japanese Civil War, Batman vs Superman and “Tidying Guru” Maria Kondo have in common? No, they’re not my most favouritest things (though thanks for compliment that I’m tidy) but are, in fact, some topics that I’ve learned quite a lot about recently. To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet¹ ![]()
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