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The Stories Schools Tell and Do Not Tell: Curriculum Representation and the Child Who Cannot Find Themselves in the Textbook

A curriculum is a story about whose knowledge, history, and culture matter. When large groups of children cannot find themselves in their textbooks, the message is clear — and it affects their engagement, identity, and learning. A contributing voice from educational research | Specialist in education equity, school improvement, and teacher professional development This essay […]

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When the Mother Tongue Is Not the Medium: Language Transitions and the Loss of a Child’s First Voice

India has hundreds of home languages. Its schools teach in a fraction of them. The gap between what a child speaks at home and what the teacher speaks at school is one of education’s most underestimated harms. Prof. Suhasini Bhattacharya | Applied linguist and teacher educator, specialising in multilingual classrooms When a four-year-old from a […]

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The Stories Schools Tell and Do Not Tell: Curriculum Representation and the Child Who Cannot Find Themselves in the Textbook

When the Mother Tongue Is Not the Medium: Language Transitions and the Loss of a Child’s First Voice