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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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Communicating Diversity and Equality through Teaching and Engagement

As teachers we cannot be satisfied that our role in society has been fulfilled by limiting our teaching to what happens within the 4 walls of our classrooms.

We have the ability to remove walls and any other obstacle so that we can reach further. Our classrooms ought to be open so that as many people as possible can join and benefit from the opportunity to learn with others.

We can design our teaching so that it is accessible and inclusive. If we can, we must. For it is only when we give that we have. To give as much as it is possible is only in our best interest as educators. We all want to live in societies that are knowledgeable, sensitive and tuned in. We want healthy communities. Education makes us all healthy. If there are people who do not have access to education,  it means that the body of our community, our global village, is not yet well. We have to keep open minded to change that.
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