Jean-Jacques Weber

Flexible Multilingual Education

Putting Children's Needs First

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Channel View Pubn Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781783091997
• ISBN-10: 1783091991
• Artikelnr.: 40455514

Autorenporträt

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).