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Goossens, Sue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
While much research has focused on how Western schools contain or silence the increasing multilingualism of their pupils, this paper investigates how a Dutch-medium school in Brussels has decided to take a different approach by branding itself as multilingual. Based on sociolinguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it will show that teachers invested in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Institutional Characteristics, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries
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Daugaard, Line Møller – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This article focuses on mother tongue teaching in Arabic, Dari, Pashto and Somali as it is practised in a linguistically diverse primary school in Denmark. The article draws on a linguistic ethnography of language teaching across the curriculum, and the analysis focuses on three mother tongue teachers. Drawing on classroom observations and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language Instruction, Arabic, Indo European Languages
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Higgins, Christina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
This article examines the literacy events in HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania to investigate how they construct social identities for participants and to what extent they provide opportunities for critical health literacies. The projects took place as collaborative research partnerships with local Tanzanian NGOs in an effort to analyse and improve…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Ethnography, Literacy
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Makoe, Pinky; McKinney, Carolyn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
Existing research on language in South African schooling frequently draws attention to the problematic hegemony of English and the lack of access to quality education in the home language of the majority of learners, often drawing on the metaphor of a gap or a disjuncture between post-apartheid language in education policy (LiEP) and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Power Structure