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Empowering Language Learners: Critical Approaches to SDGs

  In an increasingly interconnected world, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a powerful framework for addressing global challenges. They provide a shared language for discussing crucial topics like fairness, planetary protection, and equitable access to education. However, in our urgency to integrate them, are we sometimes missing a deeper opportunity? This article proposes moving beyond a superficial "checklist" approach to the SDGs in language teaching, particularly for those in subsidiary language courses who might feel time-constrained. By embracing a more critical and relational pedagogy, we can transform SDG engagement from a managerial task into a truly transformative learning experience, empowering students to become critical thinkers, not just well-behaved global citizens. This approach aligns with calls from post-development thinkers like Arturo Escobar (2018), who urge us to question the "one-size-fits-all" Western idea of progress often em...
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Reflective teaching

Reflective practice is something most of us do on a regular basis. However, sometimes it is difficult to soundboard our reflections with other colleagues. 

 In Lingua Bytes we are trying to build a community of contributors so that reflective practice is supported. Colleagues prepared to engage reflectively in productive dialogue and debate over topics that we have as common interests, despite our very personal and different ways of teaching are there fore very welcome. It is important to make that dialogue visible and accessible. We can thus learn from each other more easily.

There are many ways to be a successful teacher and it would be great to get that expertise shared so that we can create conversations across and a round a vast range of aspects and themes involved in our teaching practice.

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