National Consortium for Languages Education
UCL Institute of Education
Celebrating Black History Month with NCLE
We invite you to join us in reflecting on our teaching practice to promote inclusive representation in pedagogy and excellence in language leadership.
We have curated a short collection of CPD activities from NCLE’s Language Educators Online (LEO) platform, with dedicated content to explore language teaching through the perspective of Black cultural and linguistic diaspora.
Please do explore these – we hope they will inform your practice.
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REPRESENTATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Elaborate – The Intercultural Dimension: 2. Reflecting opportunities for learning
In this unit, we will guide you through a critical reading of Rudine Sims Bishop’s seminal article on Mirrors, Windows and Sliding doors. This can inform how you select authentic and culturally rich material in your teaching practice.
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DECENTRING FROM DOMINANT NARRATIVE
Elaborate – The Intercultural Dimension: 3. Inspiring decentring
In this unit, we look back on the seminal analysis and recommendations from the Swann report published in 1985 advocating for inclusive and diverse education. This can inform your teaching practice in developing the use of positive role models from the Black diaspora communities.
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EXCELLENCE IN BLACK LEADERSHIP
Expert View: Teaching French at a bilingual primary school
In this Expert View practitioner case study, Bunmi Richards, headteacher of a bilingual French primary school, shares how the bilingual curriculum in her school is providing a culturally rich experience to her pupils coming from diverse backgrounds.
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For inspiration… Two short videos of pupils in NCLE schools talking about their multilingualism and what it means to them:
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Multiculturalism and Home Heritage and Community Languages in the UK
Meet pupils in NCLE schools talking about their multilingual backgrounds and lives.
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Celebrating Home, Heritage and Community Languages (HHCLs)
‘I think it would be a good thing for the school to consider teaching an opportunity for children to learn another language’
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