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The final seminar in the Centre for Transformative Change in Schools (CenTCS) 2025-26 seminar series is an in-person event which will present some examples of ways in which we prepare initial teachers for transformative change and praxis in the context of languages learning in Scotland, and ways in which teachers enact transformative teaching in classrooms in the context of the 1+2 Language Learning Policy in Scotland.

Scotland is a multilingual country with over 168 languages spoken by school-aged children, and the city of Glasgow is particularly diverse. In contrast to this rich and exciting linguistic and ethnic diversity, 56.4% of pupils live in areas that fall into Quintile 1 of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), meaning they are in the 10% of the most socially deprived households in Scotland.

When this ‘linguistic and cultural richness’ is conceptualised from a critical wealth lens and underpinned by transformative and culturally responsive pedagogical approaches, learners and their learning experiences are not thwarted by a deficit approach.

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