Ian Cushing
@ian_cushing
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Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Imagining futures of linguistic justice in schools. Editor @CritStudsEd.
Manchester, UK
Joined November 2015
i am still in shock but I have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. starting in autumn 2026 for 3 years, i’ll be looking at linguistic justice in schools, particularly in how children and teachers engage in radical, grassroots activism for structural change. 🌸 https://t.co/OVZwEHurxW
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Building a world class curriculum for whom? New blog post from me https://t.co/x99KjhS6IB
tenpencemore.wordpress.com
With no irony, on Guy Fawkes Day 2025, Becky Francis’s final report from the Curriculum and Assessment Review was published. Guy Fawkes day, if you don’t already know, marks an event in…
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had so so many kind messages about this - it is deeply appreciated. funding apps are never solo efforts. and this grant will be in collaboration with teachers and children who are pushing for transformative change in relation to linguistic justice. can’t wait to get started 🫶🌸
i am still in shock but I have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. starting in autumn 2026 for 3 years, i’ll be looking at linguistic justice in schools, particularly in how children and teachers engage in radical, grassroots activism for structural change. 🌸 https://t.co/OVZwEHurxW
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Congratulations to @ian_cushing who has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize from @LeverhulmeTrust for a new study challenging linguistic injustice in schools. The three-year study will enable transformative change and influence education policy. 🔗 https://t.co/kpSuPUcAr9
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my parents did something wonderful. instead of pocket money they took me to the local library to choose 2-3 books a month. but because of austerity politics and economic cuts that library doesn't exist anymore. now children living in poverty get criticised for not reading enough.
My parents did something wonderful. Instead of pocket money they gave us a book allowance (from about age 5), enough for 2-3 paperbacks a month, and we were taken to the bookshop to spend it. So many books that still enrich and warm my mind. https://t.co/NPLasNKksA
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@TwinklDigest @voice21oracy @CharteredColl Worth reading this then @CharteredColl before declaring you believe that! https://t.co/PnrxjITS5k.
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Oracy is a hot topic in England’s education landscape, increasingly deployed as part of a bipartisan theory of social justice which claims that improved abilities in spoken language can afford work...
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Please join me on 12th November at my professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’ at the University of Leeds . More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers):
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
Drawing on research conducted over 20 years, Prof. Julia Snell interrogates the assumption that modifying children's speech will lead to educational success and social mobility.
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My review of Nick Gibb's Reforming Lessons is now available on @YorksBylines: "This book unavoidably feels like a desperate attempt by a long-standing minister to safeguard his legacy from the reality of the education system he left behind" https://t.co/xu8Vqy2oRm
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons aims to defend his ministerial legacy, but instead reads like a desperate attempt to rewrite England’s education failures
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You’ve massively cut bursaries. Nobody’s fooled.
Thinking about getting in to teaching? We’re supporting aspiring teachers with bursaries and scholarships worth up to £31,000, tax free. Attracting the best in to teaching and making sure every child gets the opportunities they deserve.
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A brillliant, fascinating article by Ian Cushisng about the word gap - but also about the whole ecology of our current education system, uncovered by tracing the experiences of one teacher and what these reveal about the system as a whole. https://t.co/A6dSHBlQPj
ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This article uses a ‘follow the thing’ methodology to trace the trajectory of the so-called word gap from its original conception in 1990s US academic knowledge production through to a teacher...
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New: ResearchED: where does the money go? https://t.co/tX2svxbNfD Long-read analysis of the economics of the prominent education organisation’s annual conference.
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Happy Black History Month. In honour of the start of BHM I want to highlight Black bookshops. First up is New Beacon Books, the UK’s 1st Black bookshop. In 2021, owners said they’d be closing down due to financial pressures but then over £70k was raised to keep them open 🙌🏾
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I hate the saying, 'If you only read one thing this weekend...' - but if you are working in education in any context, do get round to reading this this weekend!
new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫 Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept https://t.co/MHVYiVdscD i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
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Follow the Word Gap: The Social Life of a Deficit Concept
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This article uses a ‘follow the thing’ methodology to trace the trajectory of the so-called word gap from its original conception in 1990s US academic knowledge production through to a teacher...
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new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫 Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept https://t.co/MHVYiVdscD i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
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If we are to stem the far right, we need a massive surge in anti-racism - starting right where we live.
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Follow the Word Gap: The Social Life of a Deficit Concept - Cushing - 2025 - Reading Research Quarterly - Wiley Online Library
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This article uses a ‘follow the thing’ methodology to trace the trajectory of the so-called word gap from its original conception in 1990s US academic knowledge production through to a teacher...
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Deaths by Design is part of a new series of resources available at the HJL website to support us to examine, and build power against, welfare state violence. ❤️🔥 Link below👇🏾
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new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫 Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept https://t.co/MHVYiVdscD i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
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