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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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How to be an Antiracist

Non-racist is a term of denial and weaker on the face of the term "racist". Racism intersects with class, culture and geography and creates false hierarchies of human value. It changes the way we see and value ourselves.

Creating racial-equity through policies or individual actions is being an anti-racist. The term "anti-racist" indicates the active, engaged agency that is needed to truly contest racist actions and policies.

 
Ibram X. Kendi, a history scholar, explains in his book How to be an Antiracist, all we need to know to shift our perspective, to start the active engagement we need to produce much more fair societies. 

We need to educate ourselves in the art of becoming better citizens,  and this book offers us a great opportunity to reflect and to become more conscious about our unquestioned beliefs and misconceptions. The first place to become an anti-racist is within ourselves. 

While you get the book, you can get started by reading The American Nightmare, an article in The Atlantic by Ibram or with this podcast, where Ibram discusses with Brené Brown, not to be missed!



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