1.3 Linguistic and cultural diversity for sustainability

Learning objectives. By the end of this unit, participants can:

• Critically reflect on personal identities

• Explore shared and divergent identities to build community and encourage empathy

• Consider how assumed and ascribed identities support and/or undermine sustainability

• Identify individual and collective strategies for minimising prejudice and its impacts

• Critically reflect on how privilege operates to normalize some identities over others

• Explore the connection between diverse and inclusive schools and communities and sustainability

• Envision a diverse, inclusive and sustainable community, taking into account multiple perspectives

• Describe personal values, beliefs and experiences of multilingualism  in relation to research-based insights around multilingualism and multilingual education

• Discuss connections between multilingual education and sustainability in the European context
• Provide practical examples of strategies for engaging learners' linguistic resources for learning, and language teaching and learning across the curriculum
  
• Evaluate the extent to which multilingualism is recognised, valued and engaged with in lessons and/or at school or institute
  
• Identify practical action to strengthen multilingualism in own context of practice