This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children’s actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education – rather than mother tongue education – is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.
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This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity.
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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part I 2. Using Non-standard Varieties in Education 3. The Issue of Access 4. What Makes and Breaks a Good Language-in-education Policy? A Social Perspective Part II 5. The United States of America 6. Hong Kong and China 7. Singapore 8. South Africa 9. Luxembourg 10. Three Autonomous Communities of Spain: Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia 11. Conclusion References Index
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Extremely readable, this book offers critical windows into a wide range of educational contexts illustrating different approaches to bilingual and multilingual education. The author sets the agenda for much needed future implementations of what he defines as flexible multilingual education by drawing lessons from the impact that each of the programs and policies analyzed has had on children's, parents' and society's language attitudes, ideologies and practices. All in all, a valuable resource for researchers, teachers and policy makers.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781783091997
Publisert
2014-05-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Multilingual Matters
Vekt
404 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
232

Biographical note

Jean-Jacques Weber is Professor of English and Education at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include discourse analysis, and multilingualism and education, and he has recently co-authored Introducing Multilingualism (2012) and co-edited Multilingualism and Multimodality (2013).