Multilingual Education and India

Dear MLE friends, There are several journals related to Multicultural Education that are of interest to MLE practitioners and scholars. Below is an overview from one particular publisher. The articles can be read on-line for free. But If I understand it right it will only be free till the end of this month. Enjoy it! Here is the link:  http://www.educationarena.com/journals/bySubject.asp?subject=SCED48

Dear MLE, A new MLE newsletter has been started by the Asia Multilingual Education Working Group under the Thematic Working Group on Education for All . See below. It seems very worthwhile to subscribe. Thanks to Dave Pearson for the tip.

Dear MLE Friends, Over the last few months several people asked me what MLE related projects are actually going on in India. So we have started an overview of MLE related projects . However this overview is (hopefully!) far from complete. If you know of any MLE related project not yet on the list, please let us know. That way we can make the list more complete and learn from each other. Any other type of feed-back on the posted list is of course welcome too!

Dear MLE friends, This week a lot of news items were found on the internet related to multilingualism and MLE because of the celebrations on the Mother Language Day. The release of a new report from SC is one that caught my eye because it also has references to India: Reflecting language diversity in children’s schooling: moving from ‘Why multilingual education’ to ‘How?’ by Helen Pinnock . Here is the news release from the CfBT website: Today, 21 February, CfBT releases new research to coincide with International Mother Tongue Language Day. The research, undertaken with Save the Children, examines how multilingual education in Africa, Asia and Latin America can be made possible.  The research focuses on two well-developed multi-lingual education projects run by Save the Children with local partners in Vietnam and Bangladesh as well as material from government

Dear MLE friends, Congratulations, today is Mother Language Day ! This occasion started in our neighbouring country, Bangladesh. Read more about how they are marking this day (including a summary of the history): http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=187834&cid=2 A UNESCO focussed press release is here: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/305367/international-mother-language-day Enjoy this day, talk about it will colleagues and celebrate your own Mother Tongue!

Dear MLE Friends , Some state governments take the language of instruction issue of the Right to Education Act quite seriously. According to the Hindi newspaper Amar Ujala the Himachal Pradesh government has decided to have the teachers use the local languages in teaching the different subjects in the schools. If this is indeed going to get implemented that would be very innovative. Books and articles The MLE-india.blogspot.com site now has a separate page on MLE related books and articles . Check it out and let us know if relevant publications are missing. See Full article in Hindi

Dear MLE friends, A new book is coming out which is focusing in the linguistic minorities in India and on the policies related to that in particular: Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities in India: An Appraisal of the Linguistic Rights of Minorities in India Thomas Benedikter You might place an advanced booking as that will give you a good discount. See details below.