STAGE 1: PROVOCATION

A controversial idea that demands discussion.

STAGE 2: DIMENSIONS

A dynamic exploration of different perspectives using physical movement, visual change and spatial shifts in critical analysis.

STAGE 3: ACTION

Concrete, meaningful life changes in response to the exploration of the provocation.

STAGE 4: REFLECTION

A forthright consideration of the impact of the provocation and action on your worldview.

We begin with a provocation: a controversial idea, quotation, poem, image, video clip or other medium designed to inspire thought, debate, discussion, and intellectual growth. Many of these are drawn from Instagram, which is becoming an increasingly artistically rich and activistic platform. By inciting strong opinions, worries and doubts about language level diminish as we become impassioned to share and defend our views.

Some example provocations are given below:

Intellectual English utilises a groundbreaking pedagogical framework, Architecting Educating, that re-envisions the classroom in architectural terms with 5 dimensions, combining physical movement, visual change, and spatial shifts with critical analysis. The nature of the dimensions are subject to change based on student desires and requirements, but the Integrated Humanities approach is highly engaging and effective for most students. Philosophically, the overall project represents an attempt to deconstruct a dominant, dangerous and disabling identitarianism by presupposing a non-dualist, differential ontology through a a de-dichotomisation of mind-body toward an immanent understanding.

Despite this, the approach maintains traditional curriculum commitments to conceptual understanding and skills, although treats these as perspectives, as ways of looking at provocations, rather than as universal inputs and outputs.

All Intellectual English classes are action-oriented. This means that all provocations demand meaningful, concrete actions to be taken. These are developed by students themselves and This is "homework" in the Intellectual English approach.

Here are some example actions that might be taken in response to the provocations given:

• Stop watching the news for a week.

• Look at the moon for 15 minutes tonight.

• Watch an episode of Narcos and consider the way it constructs the "cartel".

When you return to your next class we further develop our ideas in relation to these actions, utilising a series of debriefing questions to consider the impact of the provocation and action on your worldview.

1. How do you feel?

2. What happened?

3. What did you learn?

4. What is important?

5. What's driving things here?

6. What next?