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Judit Langer-Buchwald – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2019
The migration crisis of the past few years has influenced Hungary and Austria; therefore, migration, as well as its linguistic effect on society and education, and the cultural and social variation came to the front in both countries' educational policies. Nonetheless, while Austria is a well-developed welfare country, and according to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Hungarian, Public Policy
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Momtselidze, Giorgi – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020
Introduction: The historical conditions that have developed over the centuries, as well as the migration processes of the 19th and 20th centuries, have determined the multi-ethnic composition of the country's population. Georgia, as a post-Soviet country, has been transitioning from totalitarianism to democracy for the last few years. The country…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Minority Group Students, Ethnic Groups, Social Change
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Rampton, Ben; Cooke, Mel; Holmes, Sam – Journal of Social Science Education, 2018
Purpose: This paper introduces Stroud's 'Linguistic Citizenship', a concept committed to democratic participation, to voice, to the heterogeneity of linguistic resources and to the political value of sociolinguistic understanding. Approach: It first outlines Linguistic Citizenship's links with the ethnographic sociolinguistics inspired by Hymes,…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Citizenship, Ethnography, Multilingualism
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Garthus-Niegel, Kristian; Oppedal, Brit; Vike, Halvard – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Education has continuously been regarded as a vital tool in Norwegian policymakers' immigrant integration agendas. This study analyzes semantic structures substantiating the policy language of historical Norwegian immigrant education policies from their inception in 1973 until today (2013). The analysis is framed by Kronenfeld's linguistic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Social Systems, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Khavenson, Tatiana; Carnoy, Martin – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
In this paper, we try to unravel some of the unintended and intended academic effects associated with post-Soviet educational reforms by focusing on three cases: Estonia, Latvia and Russia. We have chosen this comparison because a unique "natural experiment" in the three countries allows us to compare the changing academic performance on…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Systems, Academic Achievement, Russian
Peko, Andelka, Ed.; Sablic, Marija, Ed.; Jindra, Ranka, Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
The democratic changes that occurred in Croatia within last two decades are oriented towards European values and multi-intercultural perspectives. Let us remember that, according to the census from 1991, Croatia was inhabited with people from 27 nations, with Croats being a majority. During the Homeland war, basically a defensive war against the…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Foreign Countries