The Teach-D (Teaching in Diversity) Project invites teachers and facilitators interested in enhancing their diversity management skills in the classroom to participate in a pilot testing the Teach-D online course. The course is made up of 6 course modules and an introductory module:
- Introduction to the Teaching in Diversity online training course
- Module 1: Managing diversity at school
- Module 2: Minority rights in education
- Module 3: Non-discrimination and equality
- Module 4: Religious diversity
- Module 5: Linguistic diversity in education
- Module 6: Hate speech
Participants are asked to spend at least 1 hour of trying out the course and when finished filling in a questionnaire with their feedback. Please email Marlous Visser if you want to participate. The deadline for completing the questionnaire is Friday 19 October 2018.

"For bilingual children, the early primary years are a common point of linguistic rebellion", says professor Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University, Sydney) in 'Language on the Move'. At the age of only 5, her daughter informed her that she would stop speaking her mother's language (German) and switch to the English of her friends. "The combined discovery of a stronger language and of social difference may lead them to reject the home language."
Piller illustrates her story with Dr Sabine Little's (Sheffield University, UK) research on bilingual parents and the language negotiating with their children. In Little's research with 212 bilingual families in the UK, she found that parents often failed to talk about these complicated feelings with their children, which could turn into a source of tensions between them. "In fact, attempting to raise children bilingually may not only impact on the parent-child relationship but can also put a strain on the couple relationship", states Piller in her and Livia Gerber's new research 'Family language policy between the bilingual advantage and the monolingual mindset'.