by Jonathan | Feb 15, 2021 | Blog
By Christiana Fizet [Image copyright: Lean In Canada] Although I began my doctoral studies in 2014, the seed was planted for the idea five years earlier, in 2009. It came in the form of a statement by then Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a news conference of...
by Jonathan | Feb 1, 2021 | Blog
By Julie McAdam My Stance The world as we currently experience it, is beset with waves of crisis (Guilherme and Dietz, 2015: 1) all related to capitalist economics that have paved the way for stringent austerity and a growing sense of ‘not knowing where the world is...
by Jonathan | Dec 17, 2020 | News
The Study of Islam and Muslims in the shadow of the “War on Terror”: Complexity, Reflexivity and Decolonising Methodologies. A major conference delivered by the Edinburgh Alwaleed Centre, Moray House School of Education and Sport, Centre for Education for...
by Jonathan | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog
By Marlies Kustatscher There is currently revived interest across disciplines and educational institutions to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ (Arshad, 2020). There are many layers to this, from diversifying reading lists to unpacking racist underpinnings of key concepts,...
by Jonathan | Dec 4, 2020 | Publication
The CERES Annual Report 2019-2020 has now been launched. The report covers the recent activities and achievements of the Centre, including details of ongoing research projects, recent publications by CERES Members, knowledge exchange and impact events, and associated...
by Jonathan | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
By Islay Nicklin [Photo copyright: Tyler Feder] In June, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Scottish high school pupils began speaking out about their experiences with racism in schools. At that time, I was finishing my probationary teaching year in an...
by Jonathan | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
By Kari Giordano [Photo copyright: Friends School of Wilmington] Place based education has been embraced by some rural communities as a method of connecting students to their local surroundings in order to strengthen both the education of the student and the cultural...
by Jonathan | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog
By Andy Hancock [Photo credit: Linguistic Society of America] One element of The Black Lives Matter movement has been to shine a light on whose voices in society are heard and which are being silenced. These include multilingual voices as languages are integral to an...
by Jonathan | Nov 9, 2020 | Blog
By Rachel O’Neill [BSL translation by Rachel O’Neill, University of Edinburgh] It seems a wonderful job: teaching small groups of children, supporting deaf children to succeed in school, having close contact with families of deaf babies from birth, making...
by Jonathan | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog
By Wilson McLeod Contempt and hostility towards Gaelic language and culture are deeply embedded in Scotland. Since at least the fourteenth century, Gaelic has often been stigmatised as inferior and backward, stereotypically associated with poverty and restricted...
