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This second volume of Language Issues in Comparative Education, following the tradition of the first, introduces the state of the field, re-establishes core terminology and concepts, and situates the chapters in terms of their contributions to multilingual education based on non-dominant languages. The first group of chapters examines language-in-education policy change, applying an innovative framework to analyze diverse contexts including Mozambique, Estonia and the Philippines. The next group of chapters describes activities designed to implement multilingual education. Using examples from Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal, they explore progress in teacher professional development and elaboration of materials for literacy and learning through non-dominant languages. Some highlight new areas of the field, attending to speakers of non-dominant languages other than the ones chosen for instruction, and to the urgent multilingual needs of refugee learners. The final group of chapters presents strategies for research and advocacy, illustrated with examples from DR Congo, Uganda and India. Taken together, these contributions form a cohesive body of work that takes stock of advances in multilingual education and moves the field forward.
The authors and editors share a common commitment to comparativism in their methods and analysis, and aim to contribute to a more inclusive and multilingual education for all.
See inside the book.
The authors and editors share a common commitment to comparativism in their methods and analysis, and aim to contribute to a more inclusive and multilingual education for all.
See inside the book.
Price: $70.00
Pages: 324
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices
Publication Date:
28 January 2021
ISBN: 9789004449657
Format: Paperback
“This book is an important contribution to research on a topic that has been neglected in the academic field of comparative education and sidelined in the EFA/SDG policy discourse. A balanced combination of context-specific and comparative analyses, it opens nuanced perspectives on the issues of multilingual education policy and practice in their wider socio-cultural contexts, complemented with suggestions for needed further research.” – Tuomas Takala, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Education, University of Tampere
“First language-based multilingual education is one of the most formidable strategies for inclusion. The lessons in this book will help policy makers in governments improve their own basic education systems to ensure that the learner is in the center of education implementation.” – Dina Ocampo, Professor, College of Education, University of the Philippines
“This volume contributes a timely, authoritative argument for the use of non-dominant languages in education as an essential component of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for education. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that the keys to linguistic sustainability are language-in-education policies and teaching practices that recognize children’s first languages as valued resources for their communities, their nations, and the world.” – Jessica Ball, Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
“At a time when most of the news is bad–pandemic, unemployment, climate change, 40% of children cannot understand their teachers—it is very cheerful to have an account of serious efforts to correct one of these problems. This collection reports a number of efforts to provide education in the home language of pupils, describing promising cases to provide mother language education. It deserves to be widely read.” – Bernard Spolsky, Professor Emeritus of English, Bar-Ilan University
“First language-based multilingual education is one of the most formidable strategies for inclusion. The lessons in this book will help policy makers in governments improve their own basic education systems to ensure that the learner is in the center of education implementation.” – Dina Ocampo, Professor, College of Education, University of the Philippines
“This volume contributes a timely, authoritative argument for the use of non-dominant languages in education as an essential component of achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for education. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that the keys to linguistic sustainability are language-in-education policies and teaching practices that recognize children’s first languages as valued resources for their communities, their nations, and the world.” – Jessica Ball, Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria
“At a time when most of the news is bad–pandemic, unemployment, climate change, 40% of children cannot understand their teachers—it is very cheerful to have an account of serious efforts to correct one of these problems. This collection reports a number of efforts to provide education in the home language of pupils, describing promising cases to provide mother language education. It deserves to be widely read.” – Bernard Spolsky, Professor Emeritus of English, Bar-Ilan University
Carol Benson, PhD (1994), is Associate Professor of International and Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She researches policy development and innovation in multilingual education for speakers of non-dominant languages, with ongoing collaborative projects in Cambodia and Senegal.
Kimmo Kosonen, PhD (1998), is a Senior Consultant in multilingual education with SIL International and Specialist in language development at Payap University in Thailand. He has published on non-dominant languages, multilingual education, and language-in-education policy in Asia.
Kimmo Kosonen, PhD (1998), is a Senior Consultant in multilingual education with SIL International and Specialist in language development at Payap University in Thailand. He has published on non-dominant languages, multilingual education, and language-in-education policy in Asia.