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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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On persuasion and political change

The oligarchs have discovered the formula for persuading the poor to vote for the interests of the very rich. Understanding how persuasion works is key on the face of "the incredible grip on our imagination that the billionaire press still exerts combined with highly effective and misleading use of social media".

If there is a formula for how to persuade there is a formula for how to resist it. One important thing to do is to make people much more aware of what is fake and what is real. This requires digital literacy to prevent that people are easily manipulated online.

George Monibot, a British writer known for his environmental and political activism, tells us this and more. Watch and learn about the issues and the proposed solutions.


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