Flexible Multilingual Education Putting Children’s Needs First
Flexible Multilingual Education Putting Children’s Needs First by Jean Jacques Weber, published by Multilingual Matters in 2014, is an illustrated edition comprising 218 pages. This book examines the advantages of a multilingual education framework that prioritizes children’s needs and interests over the specific languages involved. It advocates for a flexible approach that leverages children’s home resources while ensuring access to both local and global languages essential for their educational and professional development.
Readers will find a thorough exploration of how flexible multilingual education can address the complexities of language-in-education policies in an increasingly globalized world. The book presents case studies that illustrate the effectiveness of this approach, arguing that it offers a more promising path toward achieving educational equity amid the challenges of migration and superdiversity. With a focus on education, bilingual education, and linguistics, this work provides insights into the evolving landscape of language education.
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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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