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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https://www.mmu.ac.uk/languages/staff/profile/ian-cushing 07-11-2015 15:46:57
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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 😻 ✊
An interesting and important piece from
Ian Cushing which highlights the issues with the way in which language is policed.
“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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'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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#1 'The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate' by Ian Cushing & Prof Julia Snell
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