Flexible Multilingual Education - Putting Children's Needs First

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.

About the author

Jean-Jacques Weber is Emeritus Professor of English and Education at the University of Luxembourg. He was educated at the University of Lancaster (UK) and the University of Leuven (Belgium), where he was awarded a PhD in 1991. His main research interest is the study of language and education in multilingual contexts. He has published widely in the areas of discourse analysis, multilingualism and education, including Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach (with K. Horner; Routledge, 2018), Language Racism (Palgrave, 2015) and Flexible Multilingual Education: Putting Children's Needs First (Multilingual Matters, 2014).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Jacques Weber, Jean-Jacques Weber
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781783091980
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-198-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 301 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures