Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Teaching cultural translation: Transcending the allegedly impossible

This talk introduces a pedagogy for cultural translation that is rooted in the Pedagogical Imperative and combines Mediated Learning Experience Positive Psychology and the New Confucian notion of confluence as driving force. The approach proposed is collaborative supportive and heuristic with the aim of providing transferable tools to trainee translators that they can apply in academic and professional settings. Primary data will be presented to illustrate how trainee translators develop the ability to overcome significant challenges and to argue that cultural translation is not at all impossible and can indeed be learned and taught.