Education in a Multilingual World

Education in a Multilingual World	Education in many countries of the world takes place in multilingual contexts. Most plurilingual societies have developed an ethos which balances and respects the use of different languages in daily life.

From the perspective of these societies and of the language communities themselves, multilingualism is more a way of life than a problem to be solved.

The challenge is for education systems to adapt to these complex realities and provide a quality education which takes into consideration learner’s needs, and political demands. While uniform solutions for plural societies, may be both administratively and managerially simpler, they disregard the risks involved both in terms of learning achievement and loss of linguistic and cultural diversity.

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