How do teachers promote advocacy through social justice in English language education?
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.
How do teachers promote advocacy through social justice in English language education?
06 Nov 2024, 17:00 – 18:30
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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Dr Darío Luis Banegas
Senior Lecturer in Education
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).