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Languages that learners bring to school indicate their cognitive potential. Their languages can constitute a space for introducing them to the methods of scientific enquiry. Several other advantages accrue in the process.

From Camus to Covid-19 the marginalisation of indigenous groups in Argentina and the lived experiences of half-widows in Kashmir.     Covid-19 intensifies other social catastrophes, feeding on the ruins of structural inequality and the racism that condemns the marginalised to loss of agency, social apartheid and disposability, argues Ahmed Kabel and Robert Phillipson in their lead article ‘Structural violence and hope in catastrophic times’ for the April issue. Covid-19 has lain bare the ...