This course focuses on the intersection of sociolinguistics and education. It covers both issues of language teaching and learning, as well as the communicative aspects of education in general. Issues such as language and identity, language ideologies, multilingualism, and social and linguistic inequality are discussed in relation to their impact on classroom dynamics, educational systems, language learning motivation and the evaluation of proficiency. The course is meant to teach students how to take a socially situated and critical view of language in education, and to equip them to apply such a view to the improvement of their own teaching and the improvement of educational systems more broadly.