In the first part of our interview with Geoff Jordan on his book English Language Teaching Now and How It Could Be, co-written with Mike Long, he spoke about why they wrote the book, and…
Posts By Paul Walsh
Interview with Geoff Jordan Part I
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there, as the saying goes. Without a vision of the future, we remain stuck in the status quo, mired in our old beliefs…
Precarity – Can you measure it?
Alejandra Vives Vergara and her co-researchers have developed the Employment Precariousness Scale (EPRES). This scale is important because it connects precariousness with health outcomes. Their research, published in the Occupational & Environmental Medicine (OEM) journal…
Working in the global ELT industry: Is it just me?
Most of us are familiar with the idea of ELT as a global industry. But while it is not uncommon for teachers to move around and work in various countries and contexts, grasping an understanding…
‘Israel is using intensive violence against civilians’ – Voices from inside Gaza
I first met Nick Bilbrough when he came to Berlin several years ago. Since then he has been running the Hands Up Project (HUP) which provides educational opportunities to Palestinian children via remote learning. Through…
Strength Through Solidarity – English Teacher Worker Group Chile
IN NOVEMBER 2019, a month into the Chilean uprising against massive inequality, I published an Open Letter to the English Teaching Community in Chile. ‘Chile has woken up’ I wrote, ‘and we have the duty…
Time to talk about … Beating the Binary
When my new boss ordered me to change my appearance at my first day on the job in a new country, I knew the rest of the year would be an uphill battle. I was…
Time to talk about … jumping ship
In this interview Phil Longwell talks about his research on how teachers have handled the Covid-19 pandemic, positive psychology, and why he’s jumping ship. We’re publishing this to coincide with the final Time to Talk…
We need to talk about…flexibility
Employers believe that the fixed, temporary, zero- and short-hours contracts that dominate many workplaces today give them flexibility. And this flexibility helps them to plan, predict costs, and save money. How such flexibility helps workers is…
Will Covid spell the end of ELT?
In April, with the first wave of Covid-19, we had our first #eltworkerchat. Many teachers had lost hours, student numbers were down – and there was a strong push to go online. Some teachers found…
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