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Heterogeneity: multilingualism and democracy

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dc.creator Hans-Jürgen Krumm
dc.date 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:12:30Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:12:30Z
dc.identifier 1102-6472
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/da8a3aa1ad2e482f995df68fe02ac07c
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/15277
dc.description Linguistic diversity and multilingualism on the part of individuals are aprerequisite and a constitutive condition of enabling people to live togetherin a world of growing heterogeneity. Foreign language teaching plays animportant part in democratic education because it can be seen as a trainingin respecting otherness and developing an intercultural, non-ethnocentricperception and attitude. This is all the more important because of the neces-sity of integrating children from migrant families into school life.My article argues that language education policy has to take this per-spective into account, i.e., of establishing a planned diversification so thatpupils (and their parents) will not feel satisfied with learning English only,but also become motivated to learn languages of their own neighbourhood,such as migrant and minority languages. However, in order to make use ofthe linguistic resources in the classroom, relating it to the democratic impetusof foreign language education, it is necessary to revise existing languagepolicies and to develop a multilingual perspective for all educational institutions.
dc.language Swedish
dc.language Danish
dc.language Norwegian
dc.language English
dc.publisher Örebro University
dc.relation http://www.oru.se/Extern/Forskning/Forskningsmiljoer/HumUS/Utbildning_och_Demokrati/Tidskriften/2004/Nr_3/Krumm.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1102-6472
dc.source Utbildning & Demokrati : Tidsskrift för Didaktik och Utbildningspolitik, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 61-77 (2004)
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Heterogeneity: multilingualism and democracy
dc.type article


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