Project Title: Inclusion in Initial English Language Teacher Education: Embedding Practice in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
Duration 5 months: November 01, 2024 –March 31, 2025
Project Leader:
- Professor Barbara Skinner, Professor of TESOL and Education, Ulster University
Project team at Akhmet Baitursynuly Kostanay Regional University:
- Yelena Kandalina, assistant professor of Foreign Philology Department
- Regina Akhmetkaliyeva , head of Foreign Philology Department
Project partner: Abu Rayhan Biruni Urgench State University
Project aim: to advance inclusive practices within Initial English Language Teacher Education (IELTE) and Pre-Service Teacher Training (PRESETT) settings in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Project objectives:
- to design and deliver an ‘Inclusion in IELTE’ workshop to improve inclusion in PRESETT Revising curricula and resources: To integrate inclusive strategies into English Language Teaching.
- to contribute to long term and sustainable institutional change that promotes good quality IELTE by fostering participants' confidence in disseminating learning to colleagues in educational settings wider afield
