Category: TESOL
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Minimising harm in research with multilingual parents – protecting participants through creating translanguaging space
Research ethics in higher education institutions are increasingly led by the mantra: protect the institution, protect the participants, protect yourself. Mostly this is quality assured through increasingly bureaucratic processes involving form filling and standardised risk assessments. As ethics representative for SIOE this has caused me many sleepless nights thinking about whether the multiple ethics forms…
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To decolonise or to diversify? Untangling the terminology of emancipatory curriculum design
“You cannot take authority over things that are not named.” Thus spoke Professor Udy Archibong, Pro-VC for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Bradford, at a conference on the ethnicity degree awarding gap that I attended earlier this year. She was responding to the idea that some universities might prefer to talk about…
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What’s the meaning of International Students?
Four thousand students at Sheffield Hallam are eligible to wear the International Student wristband. These identity markers draw institutional distinctions surrounding fees, immigrations rules, police registration and visas. But wearing the wristband can trigger images of students who lack criticality, are passive, plagiarize, and follow other deficient learning habits. Lecturers and students do well to…