Migration, Multilingualism and Education

Critical Perspectives on Inclusion

Edited by Latisha Mary, Ann-Birte Krüger, Dr. Andrea S. Young

Publication date:

01 July 2021

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781800412941

This book explores the question of how equitable and inclusive education can be implemented in heterogeneous classes where learners’ languages and cultures reflect the social reality of mass migration and everyday plurilingualism. The book brings together researchers and practitioners working in inclusive teaching and learning in a variety of migration contexts from pre-school to university. The book opens with an exploration of the relationship between language ideologies and policies with respect to the inclusion of learners for whom the language of education is not the language spoken in the home. The following section focuses on innovative pedagogical practices which allow migrants to be socially, culturally and institutionally included at school and at university while using their plurilingual competences as resources for learning/teaching and allowing them to fully realise their potential.

Brilliantly framed at beginning and end by two powerhouse scholars in multilingual education, this volume addresses central questions of how learners’ own languages (or language varieties), cultural practices and identities can be included in pedagogical approaches that challenge an overarching monolingual habitus. The chapters are interspersed with brief personal testimonies, giving life to the agency of educators who find ways, even in the most constrained and debilitating of spaces, to celebrate and build on the richly diverse repertoires of learners.