Author: Caroline Bagelman

Precarity and pedagogic rights: How teacher training programmes prepare trainees for the realities of migration in the classroom

In considering the increasing flow of displaced peoples globally, this paper suggests it is necessary for trainee teachers to receive thoughtful training equipping them to become responsive to the many challenges and possibilities that this migration brings. In presenting two case studies of teacher training programmes (in Cologne, Germany and…

‘Dreaming New Visions’: Indigenous Thinkers on Decolonising Education

De-colonial thinking and action must grapple with the antithetical nature of education: that it has the potential to both liberate and oppress. In the Canadian context, for instance, settler society used residential schools in the assimilationist mission to ‘kill the Indian’ in the Indigenous child, and education is now considered…