Our Educational Resources

On this page you can find a variety of resources that have been produced by the project. These include teaching and lesson plans, and a series of animations on our project themes for use in training and educational presentations. These animations were made in association with the media company We Are Cognitive

Animation: Aig an Sgoli le Amari: A Story About Gaelic Education and Belonging

This animation about inclusion and Gaelic language education in contemporary Scotland was made by Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh) and Tim Armstrong (University of the Highlands and Islands).

It was made in association with Bòrd na Gàidhligh and Education Scotland

Animation: How Oracy Made British Democracy

This animation explores the role that oracy education has played in the history of progressive political movements in Britain. It focuses on how the Chartists, a mid-Victorian working-class movement for democratic reform, and the women’s movement of the early c20th,

It is based on the research of Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex), which you can read in the book Oracy: The Politics of Speech Education (2025), in his chapter ‘What the Chartists and Suffragettes Realised About Oracy’ on our blog page here.

Animation: Let’s Rewrite the Conversation on Police Stops

This animation explores the role of oracy in helping the police and young minoritised youth develop more effective interactions.

It was created and devised by Leeds-based activist Chijioke John Ojukwu, in association with Stephen Coleman (University of Leeds).

You can watch a roundtable discussion about ‘How is Citizenship Done Outside the Classroom’ from our 2022 Uses of Oracy conference, featuring Stephen and leaders of Black Lives Matter Leeds here.

Teaching Lesson Plans: What is Rhetoric?

Full set of resources for a module designed for the Scottish school curriculum by Professor Arlene Holmes-Henderson (Durham University) and Mary O’Reilly (University of Glasgow)