CARLA Leads Social Justice in Language Education Project

CARLA is collaborating with CLA language departments and support units on the federally-funded Social Justice in Language Education: Strengthening Career Competencies, Intercultural Understanding, and Language through Specialized Materials (Social SCILS) project. This three-year project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, will create a suite of open-source materials in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish that address social justice topics and are grounded in multiliteracies pedagogy.

These materials will:

• develop students’ oral and written language proficiency and prepare them to communicate in personal, academic, and professional contexts;
• encourage complex intercultural understanding of social justice topics and how they are addressed through languages and across cultures; and
• foster the core career competencies of critical thinking, creative problem-solving, ethical reasoning and decision making, and engagement with diversity.

Please see CARLA’s website for more information, and reach out to Kate Paesani at kpaesani@umn.edu with questions.