The recent and continuing demonstrations dotted throughout the world provoked by the murder of George Floyd unveil the dirty truths of systemic racism and its deleterious impacts on Black communities and other communities of colour. Over the last two decades, there have been growing enquiries into race and racism in the TESOL fraternity that have illuminated that English language education is not neutral and absolved from the manacles of racism but, in fact, complicit in being gatekeepers of oppression, supporting white supremacy and sustaining coloniality. This theoretical presentation contributes to the burgeoning discourses on racism in language education by focusing on the first tenet of Critical Race Theory, the ubiquity of racism, as articulated by critical legal scholar Derrick Bell. By explicating the corporeal experiences and professional mobility of Anglophone Caribbean teachers, this talk magnifies the centrality of racism calcified in the Asian TESOL contexts.

This presentation is about how we can use educational drama and theatre techniques in order to promote human rights and intercultural education in English language teaching. It is an undeniable fact that drama and theatre empower students to understand their world through exploring roles and situations and develop students’ verbal and non-verbal, individual and social communication skills. In this presentation, we will be presented with ideas that can be used in both virtual and physical classes about educational drama and theatre techniques like forum theatre, image theatre, flashbacks and flashforwards, puppetry, story circles, Conscience Alley, and many more aiming to promote effective learning and creative use of the target language while teaching students about human rights, respect, and no-hate speech while contributing to intercultural education in English teaching lessons.