Multilingual Education and Sustainable Diversity Work From Periphery to Center [Paperback]

This very original, inspirational book globalises our understanding of languages in education and changes our understanding of bilingual and multilingual education from something mostly western to being truly transnational: it spotlights the small, celebrates African and Asian cases of multilingual classrooms and demonstrates that such education is universally successful.

Colin R. Baker, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK

A norm-setting work on multilingual education, which combines theoretical perspectives with practical experience from different parts of the globe, this book demonstrates convincingly not only that multilingual education works, but also that, for most developing countries, there is no viable alternative.

Ayo Bamgbose, Professor Emeritus, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

This excellent volume brings to light the fascinating lived experiences of multilingual education in linguistically rich but resource impoverished countries, and offers important lessons from which we can all learn.

Amy B. M. Tsui, Professor , Pro Vice-Chancellor & Vice President, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

This is a book of hope and inspiration. Documenting the significant shift that is taking place in countries around the world in the status and legitimacy of mother tongue-based multilingual education, it represents a giant step towards a tipping point where mother tongue-based multilingual education will be normalized as the preferred and, in fact, common sense option for educating the children of the world.

Jim Cummins, The University of Toronto, Canada

This important book challenges us to think about multilingual education from a different anglethis time putting the periphery at thel“7