Workshop at World CLIL 2025

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Creating connections: A round-table discussion with the CLIL Research Network, for teachers and researchers

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Date: 14th June, 2025

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Abstract:

How can teachers and researchers work together to keep strengthening and developing CLIL? This is the question at the top of the agenda for the AILA CLIL Research Network (ReN). In 2025-27, we aim to address this theme across educational levels and contexts, by inviting practitioners to contribute to and ask questions of research, and by facilitating scientific networking and knowledge-sharing in ways that are relevant and accessible to both researchers and practitioners.

 

To situate our understanding of collaboration, this session integrates two key frameworks to conceptualise quality, socially just education and professional development: (1) Tikly and Barret's (2011) dimensions of inclusion, relevance, and democracy, and (2) Medina's (2013) epistemology of resistance. Both aim at ensuring that different voices and ways of thinking and doing are represented in the imagining and constructing of education.

 

During the session, the ReN's new co-convenors will share some examples of how teacher and researcher collaboration has worked in practice, addressing benefits and challenges. We will pitch our idea for a shared online space for exchange and inspiration across teaching and research. Together, we will open a conversation on how the ReN can act as a platform for teachers as well as researchers and promote further collaboration. We aim to carry the resulting ideas forward into the ReN's activities up to 2027, and hopefully beyond.