By Anne McConnell, EFA Teacher-Organiser + Lambeth hub lead “A Strike Day to Beat All Strike Days” – This little article appeared in the free London METRO newspaper on Monday, 30 January. The closer look at the current strike action that we took during a recent ESOL class was sparked by one student asking, “Why […]
Tag: Community Organising
By Adela Belecova, EFA teacher-organiser and Campaigning lead We had a great training on community organising by Iris from the Centre for Progressive Change (CPC) in last Saturday’s Southwark ESOL class. Thank you very much, Iris — you made the training really accessible for students of all English levels, and we learned a lot! During […]
Shared by EFA teacher-organiser Dermot Bryers, Pedagogy Lead In class, we’ve been looking at EFA, Citizens UK, and the Living Wage campaign in recent weeks. Students compared the two organisations using their knowledge from previous lessons and the projects’ respective websites in terms of: It produced lots of interesting discussion and emerging language. The emerging […]
By Kasia Blackman, EFA teacher-organiser and Southwark Hub Lead Civic change practitioner Katy Rubin, formerly of TONYC, throws a sentence starter out to the group, inviting us to complete it with a sound and image. ‘Democracy is…’ The room is quickly filled with wails, shrugs, shouts of anger, swearing and laughter as we wave our […]
By Kasia Blackman, EFA Teacher-Organiser and Southwark Hub Lead Seven of us face each other across a table in the centre of the room, surrounded by a ring of spectators, as the Trainer-Organiser writes ‘DEATH’ in black marker pen across the board. She explains, nonchalantly, that the three people beside me and I have just […]
In both of EFA Teacher-Organiser Adela’s Saturday classes the groups talked about problems experienced by migrants in London. In both classes the conversation was similar. They identified language barrier/lack of language as the biggest problem. They agreed that the reason why people are not studying English as much as necessary is due to a lack of time. The […]
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Living Wage Week in Brent
On Saturday, 27 of our students (plus a huddle of husbands and a magical shoal of children) joined the first of a series of monthly community events, launching a listening campaign in Brent. Thanks to Near Neighbours and Brent Council, we were delighted to be able to finally meet each other in real life! Our […]
We are a group English for Action ESOL students who attended a community organising training, which gave birth to People in Action (PIA). As migrants we suffer many problems, and this is why we have decided to help our communities. Together we can be powerful. How did we get this idea? EFA is an organization […]
In early March 2020 we advertised our annual EFA conference and set the date for April 25th. This year’s theme was going to be ESOL and community organising. We aimed to explore ideas and approaches and we wanted to make a case for including community organising as an intrinsic part of participatory ESOL. But we […]
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