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Scarino, Angela – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper addresses changing meanings attached to the concept of "community" in languages education in the school setting in Australia. The change consists of a shift from "community" as a necessary definitional category, created in the mid 1970s to mark the recognition of languages other than English used in the Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community, Second Language Instruction, Definitions
Olmos, Arlette – 1987
Because European culture is multicultural and multilingual, intercultural education is necessary for migrants and many others. Interculturalism rejects assimilation of minority cultures by dominant national cultures and promotes the need for harmonious integration of peoples with diverse languages and cultures. The report recommends pupil-centered…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Background, Cultural Education, Cultural Interrelationships
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1989
This report grows out of a symposium focusing on Education and Cultural and Linguistic Pluralism (ECALP), a project of enquiry of the international Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI). The report aims to clarify trends in multicultural education, and to examine the effects of cultural and linguistic development on educational…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy