An anti-racist English education
Cushing, Ian and Govender, Navan (2024) An anti-racist English education. English in Education, 58 (3). pp. 240-257. ISSN 0425-0494 (https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2024.2366849)
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Abstract
In this conceptual article we offer a vision and a manifesto for an anti-racist English education, focusing particularly on language. Locating our work with anti-racist efforts in the UK, we conduct a brief historical reflection of these efforts, before turning our attention to the current politico-economic context and making a case for the urgent need for English teachers and teacher educators to commit to anti-racism within their work. We then outline what contemporary anti-racist efforts in English education might look, sound, and feel like. We argue for a greater attention to intersectional positionalities and activism in English education. We argue for anti-racist language policies which work in dialogue with other broader anti-racist efforts. We argue for the need to pay attention to specific contexts and racialised dynamics of institutions and local communities. We argue for anti-racist pedagogical stances which seek to sustain the language practices of marginalised children. Finally, we end with some clarifications and warn against seeing our manifesto as a reductive, tick-box exercise.
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Cushing, Ian and Govender, Navan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6764-1169;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 89791 Dates: DateEvent2 July 2024Published24 June 2024Published Online6 June 2024Accepted19 January 2024SubmittedSubjects: Education Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 01 Jul 2024 14:42 Last modified: 02 Oct 2024 13:10 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/89791