Social justice in English language teaching: From conceptualisation to enactment

Hosted by: Language, Literacies and Education Network (LLEN)

Speaker: Dr Darío Luis Banegas (University of Edinburgh)

 

What do teachers’ and student-teachers’ think of social justice in English language teaching (ELT)? What happens when they embed it in their teaching practices? What kind of support do they need? What dimensions of professional knowledge do they exhibit? In this talk I will address these questions by discussing these findings from a collaborative action research project carried out by a group of secondary school teachers, student-teachers, and their learners in state secondary schools in Argentina in 2022-23. I will particularly discuss sites of alignment and tension in relation to relevance, democracy, and representation. I will put forward a characterisation of social justice pedagogy in ELT and implications for teacher education.

Dr Darío Luis Banegas is Lecturer in Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. He teaches a course on second language curriculum development and supervises doctoral research on language teacher motivation and gender and sexuality in language teaching. He is the convener of the Towards Intersectionality in Language Teacher Education (TILTED) Research Group. Dario’s main areas of interest are: content and language integrated learning, social justice in language education, language teacher education, and action research.

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