Theme: Yet to be confirmed
Our next Newcomers and Refugee Special Interest Group will address “Trauma Informed Practice”.
We are delighted to let you know that we have two very accomplished speakers coming to discuss their experiences at this event.
Speaker 1 is Tara Topteagarden
Tara, has worked in the Refugee Sector for 15 years, many of them as a specialist adviser within the Refugee Council’s Trafficked Children’s Unit and she still works as a freelance trainer for the Refugee Council. More recently she began work as a specialist adviser within the South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice centre.
Speaker 2 is Aleks Palanac
Aleks gained a University Distinguished Teaching Fellowship (UDTF) for sanctuary and social justice work, and teaches English at the University of Leicester. Her research interest is related to ways in which post-traumatic growth can be fostered in the refugee language classroom. These strategies have significant relevance to all of our classrooms. Here’s a link to her recent article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341452361_Towards_a_trauma-informed_ELT_pedagogy_for_refugees
We hope you will join us for this event and help us begin the work of considering ways in which our own classrooms/ practices can reflect a pedagogy which considers ways to support refugee learners.
To join, you first need to register yourself on our mailing list here:
https://forms.gle/FjJkfswyFwtfu9Xh9 – an email will be sent to members of the SIG once the Zoom links are ready to be shared
Best Wishes,
Kulwinder Maude, Julie Hayes and Fiona Ranson
Co-convenors Newcomers and Refugee SIG – NewcomersRefugeesSIG@naldic.org.uk
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