EFA and Chisenhale Primary School (Tower Hamlets) have celebrated the 10-year anniversary of our very first ESOL class! Students, former students, volunteers, school staff, EFA staff and partners all gathered together to celebrate, in a January event held at the school. To commemorate the anniversary, we made a beautiful banner, […]
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Looking back on the last 15 years of participatory ESOL pedagogy in the UK, teachers and researchers from English for Action London and the Hub for Education and Language Diversity (HELD) at King’s College London engaged in a six-month action research project across 2022 and 2023 to reflect on the […]
Community Organising For All! is the rallying cry of our latest transnational Erasmus+ project. At EFA, we have embarked on a new, European Union-funded research and training project designed to develop more inclusive approaches to Community Organising. We’ve partnered up with Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners Giolli Cooperative (Italy), POKAZ (Croatia), and Zavod […]
“Not speaking English…it’s like you don’t exist.” For thousands of migrants across London, finding an affordable and accessible English course is one of the major barriers standing in the way of their involvement in and contribution to their communities. But learning English? It opens doors. Migreat! is a project focused […]
During Spring 2021, EFA students in East London had the opportunity to participate in a series of health-focused workshops run by EFA and funded by our friends at Near Neighbours. Following these workshops, which covered topics ranging from promoting strong mental health to nutrition, students worked with teacher Amira Elwakil […]
A weekly English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) class, exploring the history of racism and nationalism.Open to new and existing EFA students at Entry 3+ proficiency and higher. In 2020, the EFA anti-racism working group agreed to set up a study group focussing on Black History, Colonialism and Nationalism. […]
