TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weber,Jean Jacques
TI  - Flexible Multilingual Education: Putting Children's Needs First 
SN  - 9781783091980 (pbk)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Toronto, ON
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Multilingualism in children
KW  - Multilingual education
KW  - Children
KW  - Language
N1  - Volume 38 in the new perspectives on language and education series; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction; PART 1; 2. Using Non-standard Varieties in Education; 3. Issue of Access; 4. What Makes and Breaks a Good Language-in-Education Policy? A Social Perspective
; PART 2; 5. United States of America; 6. Hong Kong and China; 7. Singapore; 8. South Africa; 9. Luxembourg; 10. Three Autonomous Communities of Spain: Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Galicia; 11. Conclusion; References; Author Index; Subject Index
N2  - "This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children’s needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children’s actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and professional success. It argues that, as more and more children grow up multilingually in our globalised world, there is a need for more nuanced multilingual solutions in language-in-education policies. The case studies reveal that flexible multilingual education – rather than mother tongue education – is the most promising way of moving towards the elusive goal of educational equity in today’s world of globalisation, migration and superdiversity." (Book Cover)
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