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How do teachers promote advocacy through social justice in English language education?
06 November 2024, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm
How can teachers become language advocates for social justice? Darío Luis Banegas will discuss findings from a research project exploring the intersection of social justice and advocacy in English language teaching in Argentinian secondary schools.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Effrosyni Argyri
Location
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Room 642UCL IOE20 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0AL
The findings indicate that teachers saw themselves as language advocates for social justice through situated pedagogical practices.
They redesigned the language curriculum and teaching materials to advocate for social transformation in context-responsive ways, and cultivated social responsibility and action through a variety of advocacy-orientated projects.
Darío will discuss how teacher agency was exercised through reflection and action, and the implications of the study for language teacher education for social justice and advocacy.
This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers and teachers.
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Phil Meech for UCL.
About the Speaker
Dr Darío Luis Banegas
Senior Lecturer in Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh
His main teaching and research interests are:
- social justice in language education,
- pre-service language teacher education,
- action research, and
- content and language integrated learning (CLIL).