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Ian Cushing

@ian_cushing

Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University @ManMetUni. Language, race, and (in)equality in schools.

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Vijay Ramjattan(@Vijay_Ramjattan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What if a marginalized speaker is not actually producing 'incorrect pronunciation,' but rather, using a type of pronunciation which is not familiar to you?

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clare(@ClareFeeneyUK) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Proud that my school was one of several who were part of this research. We care passionately about linguistic justice.
(There's a blog on my website about some of the work we've done, if you haven't seen it.)

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Ian Cushing(@ian_cushing) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PhD Studentship: Solidarity! Engaging young people in working-class movements in the past, present & future at Manchester Metropolitan University jobs.ac.uk/job/DEY234/phd…

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as part of mine and EngLangBlog's BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics funded project on challenging language discrimination in schools, we commissioned Wendy to produce a series of images based on our findings. here's one of them, representing teachers seeing themselves as language activists 😻 ✊

as part of mine and @EngLangBlog's @__BAAL funded project on challenging language discrimination in schools, we commissioned @wendy_w0ng to produce a series of images based on our findings. here's one of them, representing teachers seeing themselves as language activists 😻 ✊
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Ian Cushing(@ian_cushing) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ofsted pausing inspections for schools and teacher education but not for Early Years provision pretty much sums up how little the inspectorate care about EYs teaching staff and what it thinks of the important work they do. Ofsted’s recent ‘reflections’ are purely performative.

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Dr Deborah Jump(@DrDeborahJump) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FUNDED PHD OPPORTUNITY: Investigating potential linguistic prejudice in the Youth Justice System: a participatory childcentred sociolinguistic approach. Details below. Deadline 01/02/24. Contact mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/…

FUNDED PHD OPPORTUNITY: Investigating potential linguistic prejudice in the Youth Justice System: a participatory childcentred sociolinguistic approach. Details below. Deadline 01/02/24. Contact mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/…
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Ian Cushing(@ian_cushing) 's Twitter Profile Photo

tiered vocabulary is a pervasive concept in schools. but where did it come from? in forthcoming work in Language & Education i trace its roots and expose how it emerged from experiments in the 1980s which framed Black, working-class children as linguistically inferior.

tiered vocabulary is a pervasive concept in schools. but where did it come from? in forthcoming work in Language & Education i trace its roots and expose how it emerged from experiments in the 1980s which framed Black, working-class children as linguistically inferior.
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Don’t forget! SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for the 60th UKLA Int Conference. Apply for any of the presentation types (from expert practice sessions to research reports and symposia). Deadline 7 Jan 2024 - ukla.org/event/internat… [ukla.org]

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Vijay Ramjattan(@Vijay_Ramjattan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Those who enforce 'Standard English' do not actually use it on a consistent basis in their own lives.

'Standard English' is what they use to police the language practices of the racial, classed, and colonial other.

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Are you coming? Presentation/symposium, workshop, and expert practice abstract submissions for the 60th UKLA International Conference ARE STILL OPEN! Deadline 7 Jan 2024 - ukla.org/event/internat…]

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Dr Juliet Coates. @JulietCCoates.bsky.social(@JulietCCoates) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“We need to stop thinking that the way children speak is the problem, and start thinking about the way that adults listen as the problem” - spot on in many contexts; here with Ian Cushing for The Conversation on the colonialism of language in schools

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Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation(@BarbaraBleiman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just re-read this commentary we wrote on Ofsted’s English Research Review and am reminded of how very bad it was and of how damning we were. Still no idea who actually wrote it. What a lack of transparency! I do know one prominent member of the expert group resigned though.

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No More Exclusions #Free 🇵🇸(@NExclusions) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🗓️NME’s 2023 Roundup🗓️

👁️This round-up intends to give an insight into NME’s organising, resistance, principles and solidarity.

🗓️NME’s 2023 Roundup🗓️ 👁️This round-up intends to give an insight into NME’s organising, resistance, principles and solidarity.
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Ian Cushing(@ian_cushing) 's Twitter Profile Photo

word gap narratives locate faults in how marginalised communities use language and pin the blame on them for their apparent failures. word gap narratives obscure broader systemic injustices. it is no surprise that quick fix word gap narratives are so appealing to policy makers.

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Elaine Mcgreevy(@ElaineMcgreevy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'the word gap as a realization of raciolinguistic ideologies in which.. language practices of racialized, low-income & disabled speakers are characterized as deficient, ltd, &..full of gaps b/c they fail to meet benchmarks designed by powerful white listeners.' RCSLTLearn

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2023 TOP ALTMETRICS IN VOL 52

#1 'The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate' by Ian Cushing & Prof Julia Snell

doi.org/10.1017/S00474…

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coming early 2024 in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics:

Transformative justice as a method in applied linguistics

coming early 2024 in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics: Transformative justice as a method in applied linguistics
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