Declan Flanagan, (PhD)
@flandec.bsky.social
Advocate for transformative ESOL/EAL provision in N. Ireland. ESOL/EAL practitioner, NATECLA (IOI) (founding member) and current NATECLA: Language Issues Editor
Thank you to everyone who came along to the Derry Show &Tell workshop last night! @nwmf.bsky.social @flandec.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social @paulsceeny.bsky.social It rained, but only on the outside! Great conversations on ways of making community learning seen, transportable, and valued!
‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah
On what would have been the late dub poet’s 67th birthday, his musical collaborators remember his warmth, invigorating words and reflections on the state of the world
theguardian.com
speaking in non-dominant patterns and using non-standard grammar has nothing empirically to do with ‘bad behaviour’ but it has lots to do with it ideologically
Ian Cushing@iancushing.bsky.social · 2y agowhat does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
am giving a talk at Goldsmith's on the 21 May on collaborating with teachers to design futures of linguistic justice in schools, it'll be fun and it's free 💜 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
language ideologies are never just about language. here i show how they materialise in school discipline policies to construct representations of 'badly behaved' children. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ian Cushing@iancushing.bsky.social · 2y agowhat does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce
theguardian.com
what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
Madrid plans to limit computer and tablet use in primary schools to two hours a week
Madrid plans to limit computer and tablet use in primary schools to two hours a week
Teachers will be banned from setting homework involving screens in effort to tackle ‘risks’ of intensive use of IT at young age The regional government of Madrid has unveiled plans to limit the use of computers and tablets in primary schools to a maximum…
theguardian.com
this is today, at 4.30 GMT! me and clare will be talking about how our collaborations between critical applied linguists and teachers have been focused on dismantling linguistic injustice in schools, and building futures of linguistic justice 💜
The English Association@englishassociation.bsky.social · 2y agoThis will be great! Proud to be hosting ! #CriticalLanguageAwareness #TeamEnglish #Edusky #ThinkingForwards #Collaboration #HE & #Secondary 👍🏼👏🏽
I am delighted to share this article regarding neoliberal governments (Conservative/Labour 1997-2024) framing of ESOL provision in the UK.
One week to go! I'm looking forward to the opportunity to share and discuss empowering experiences of ESOL in adult education across Ireland/UK with my colleague and fellow ESOL activist, Dr Melanie Cooke.
Congrats!!!!!
Vijay Ramjattan@vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice. It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy: shorturl.at/gDhJA
The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice. It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy: shorturl.at/gDhJA
Out of Putin’s war and Trump’s treachery, a new Europe is being born | Nathalie Tocci
Out of Putin’s war and Trump’s treachery, a new Europe is being born | Nathalie Tocci
The EU has its Trojan horses and Nato’s cornerstone has crumbled. But European allies, including the UK, are bound by an urgent shared purpose, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
theguardian.com
Funny....All of a sudden, no one's performing arbitrary sex-change operations on unexpecting grade-schoolers anymore.
A worrying trend.....more Eastern block and Scandinavian counties to undoubtedly follow Poland plans military training for every adult male amid growing European security fears www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Poland plans military training for every adult male amid growing European security fears
PM Donald Tusk says country needs army of 500,000 and backs withdrawal from treaty banning landmines
theguardian.com
across 563 school behaviour policies, i found that notions of 'misbehaviour' coalesce with a whole constellation of linguistic features. of course, these linguistic features are not empirically connected to 'misbehaviour', but they are strongly ideologically connected.
Ian Cushing@iancushing.bsky.social · 2y ago👂 How do school behaviour policies ‘hear’? How do they co-construct imagined signs of linguistic deficiency with misbehaviour? What does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? i address these questions in new work coming soon in International Studies of Sociology of Education 💕
Celebrating #WorldBookDay with a milestone - my book on supporting multilingual students was published last June! If you're a teacher looking for strategies to empower #multilingual learners, check it out: shorturl.at/afmKW #edusky #EAL
Asylum seekers being forcibly expelled at EU borders, says top rights lawyer Source: The Guardian search.app/w8xG
Asylum seekers being forcibly expelled at EU borders, says top rights lawyer
Council of Europe’s Michael O’Flaherty urged leaders not to give in to populist rhetoric over migration
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President Trump’s executive order making English the official language of the U.S. was a long-sought victory for the English-only movement, which has ties to efforts to curb immigration and bilingual education.
Trump Made English the Official Language in a Country With 350 of Them
President Trump’s executive order puts his “America first” stamp onto the nation’s speech.
nytimes.com
i was so honoured to be asked to contribute to the 10 years of the BERA blog series .. here i write about longstanding and contemporary efforts to dismantle language ideologies as part of broader struggles for linguistic justice www.bera.ac.uk?p=56193
"Nancy Kerrigan must mend the breach with Tonya Harding--or resign"
🎓Higher Education News🎓 “Academics have accused the University of Edinburgh of using UK higher education’s financial crisis as a smokescreen for ‘incredibly arbitrary’ job cuts,” reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social. @timeshighered.bsky.social #academicsky #edusky #jobcuts
Edinburgh staff question rationale for £140 million cuts
Academics ask why university needs to cut jobs when its income hit £1.4 billion last year
timeshighereducation.com
