Language, education and social justice: High-impact programmes for diverse classrooms
By Emma Cleave, 2021
Fellow’s Profile
Fellow’s Profile
Language, education and social justice: high-impact programmes for diverse classrooms
Enhancing education and social justice by training teachers of pupils with English as an additional language
2018
I am a freelance consultant, operating in both in the UK and Germany. My current role is at Camden Spark, where I co-lead on the design, delivery and development of Camden's Local Cultural Education Partnership. We collaborate with schools and arts organisations in Camden to ensure equitable access to creative and cultural education for all local children and young people in the borough.
My Fellowship helped me to further develop my understanding of systemic inequities and social justice through the lens of language education, but the learning has been much further-reaching, and has influenced a current project on equity, inclusion and creativity with local teachers and cultural educators at Camden Spark.
In December 2020 I spoke at a National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC) regional interest group, and in June 2021 I delivered a short talk at an international conference in Finland. I have also been contacted to advise on various projects and to connect colleagues.
My Fellowship has allowed me to share international ideas around how to achieve systems change and shift mindsets in the classroom through learner voice, asset-based approaches, collective teacher autonomy and shared and diverse leadership.
Policy officer Emma Cleave (CF 2018) spoke at an online event organised by charity NALDIC on 9 December. Emma shared learnings from her Fellowship, which explored strategies for multilingual learners in schools, and discussed asset-based approaches in education as tools for systems change.
By Emma Cleave, 2020
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Policy officer Emma Cleave (CF 2018) spoke at an online event organised by charity NALDIC on 9 December. Emma shared learnings from her Fellowship, which explored strategies for multilingual learners in schools, and discussed asset-based approaches in education as tools for systems change.
By Emma Cleave, 2020
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.