27 January 2026, 15:30-17:00 GMT
This event is part of the School of Education’s Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public.
Hosted by the Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) and Language, Literacies and Education Network (LLEN)
Speakers:
- Balram Adhikari (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
- Bebwa Isingoma (University of Bergen, Norway)
- Lizzi O. Milligan (University of Bath)
- Mir Abdullah Miri (University of Bath)
Reparative learning in English secondary classrooms in Nepal and Uganda
This presentation will share the initial findings from the British Council-funded English Language Teaching Research Award project: Reparative learning in English secondary classrooms in Nepal and Uganda.
The team will present their working definition of reparative learning – an approach which considers how curricula, pedagogies and the classroom environment can support young people to contribute to repairing past and ongoing injustices to enable ‘better futures’. They will consider why they think this is particularly important for English curricula, particularly in multilingual contexts such as Nepal and Uganda where English is a ‘double-edged sword’ that can empower young people but can also contribute to inequalities and epistemic injustices. They will share some initial findings from interviews with secondary school teachers, collaborative workshops with teachers and teacher trainers and textbook/curriculum analysis.