Tag: Refugees
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Language education for refugees and migrants: An intentional dynamics perspective
Language education for refugees and migrants is a topic that has received much less attention than it deserves. Two recently completed MA dissertations provide some insights in this complex topic.
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MA in Language Education for Refugees and Migrants
Some of you may know that I have recently become involved in teaching at the Language Education for Refugees and Migrants (LRM) postgraduate course, offered by the Hellenic Open University. I suppose it was only natural that I found an academic home where I could bring together language teacher education, an area of work where…
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Conducting a classroom observation
Conducting classroom observations is one of the most effective ways to develop as a teacher. But classrooms are so information-rich that the experience can be overwhelming. How do you decide what to look out for?
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Working with refugee-background learners
I recently wrote about a project (Critical Skills for Life and Work) we did at the University of Graz, which aimed to help people with a refugee or migrant background with their professional integration. One of the things I did, as part of my involvement in the project, was to familiarise myself with existing literature…
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Critical Skills for Life and Work
This post is a brief overview of Critical Skills for Life and Work (CSLW), one of the last projects in which I was involved at the University of Graz. Although the project has been running since September 2017, I have avoided discussing it in this space, in order to give us time to work out various…
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Disrupting Geographical Borders in Language Education
The three next chapters in Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, problematise how the changing composition of language classroom impacts the professional roles and identities of teachers. These chapters look into superdiverse urban settings, explore the identity construction of teachers, and describe a teacher education programme that prepares language educators to help refugee-background learners.
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No child is unwelcome here: ELT tutoring for refugee children
One of the less visible aspects of the refugee crisis is that the refugee children have their education disrupted. They often have difficulty enrolling in the formal education systems of their host countries, and even when they do, they usually need a lot of extra support. To help provide some of the support needed, we at the…