Towards Intersectionality in Language Teacher Education (TILTED) Research Group

The TILTED Research Group brings together teachers and researchers who want to ensure that future language teachers develop professional knowledge around the different ways in which one’s identity is constructed and how those ways may create sites of privilege and marginalisation. We believe that embedding an intersectionality perspective in the language teacher education curriculum could be a powerful and sustainable way of supporting teachers and creating inclusive practices.

We inform and are informed by theories that include:

  • critical
  • feminist
  • queer
  • complexity
  • sociocultural

We are open to others.

Call for papers: Special issue of Language, Culture and Curriculum

We're accepting papers for a special issue of the journal Language, Culture and Curriculum, focussing on Mobilising Intersectionality in Language Teacher Education.

We invite empirical and conceptual papers that:

  • Provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationships between intersectionality and language teacher education.
  • Document practice-informed research and research-informed practice on intersectionality in initial and in-service language teacher education in different settings.
  • Promote an intersectionality lens in formal, non-formal, and informal language teacher education.
  • Discuss the relationships between intersectionality, language teacher education, and (language-in-education) policies and legislation.
  • Advance research methodologies which recognise conceptual, epistemological, and experiential diversity and justice.

For more information, visit the special issue's webpage.

Visit the special issue's webpage

Aims

  • To propose new perspectives in research and pedagogy for initial and in-service language teacher education
  • To support intersectionality in formal, non-formal, and informal (teacher) education
  • To design, implement, and promote innovative research methodologies with societal impact
  • To develop synergistic professional development by promoting intra-/inter- institutional collaboration (research, submitting papers for publication, engaging in research and knowledge exchange activities and submitting applications for research grants)

Areas of interest

Main area

  • Intersectionality in language teacher education curriculum development

Sub-areas

  • different dimensions of intersectionality (e.g., race, class, gender, etc., depending on our interests)
  • research methods and methodologies (e.g., arts-based methods, walking methodologies
  • narrative inquiry,
  • netnography
  • duo/multi-ethnographies)
  • curriculum design, resources
  • teacher education and the community
  • activism
  • crossing professional borders

Study

Members of our group teach on the following courses and programmes:

MSc TESOL

Conceptualising Research: Foundations, Assumptions and Praxis (course organiser: Dr Sal Consoli)

PhD study

We welcome students interested in pursuing a PhD with us. You can find more information about postgraduate studies, including potential supervisors' availability and areas of interest, on our Postgraduate Research Degrees pages.

Postgraduate research degrees 

Podcast

Listen to our podcast series in which we discuss our take on intersectionality in language teacher education.

 TILTED podcast on Spotify 

TILTED Conference

Poster for the TILTED conference 2023

The 1st TILTED Conference featured talks around the theme: Towards intersectionality in language teacher education: First steps. Talks included:

  • Intersectionality: Saying or doing? (Professor Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde)
  • Inclusion, diversity and intersectional activism: The need for transformation (Dr Geetha Marcus, University of Edinburgh)
  • Conceptualizing the 'what' and 'how' of unlearning: An intersectional perspective (Dr Deniz Ortactepe Hart, University of Glasgow)
  • Which children? Whose childhoods? Intersectional childhood studies and the implications for research, policy and practice with children (Dr Marlies Kustatscher, University of Edinburgh)

The talks are now available to watch on YouTube.

Watch the talks on YouTube

TILTED members

Members of the TILTED Research Group

TILTED research

The TILTED group’s research interests.

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