Social and Intercultural Benefits of Bilingual Education
A Peace-Linguistic Evaluation of «Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin (SESB)»
©2010
Thesis
388 Pages
Series:
Mehrsprachigkeit in Schule und Unterricht, Volume 12
Summary
Is two-way immersion education associated with social and intercultural benefits? This book examines social and intercultural benefits of bilingual or two-way immersion (TWI) schooling in Staatliche Europa-Schule Berlin (SESB). The author uses quantitative methods to compare SESB with mainstream education and identifies a series of statistically significant differences between the two. These findings contribute to the well-structured argument that SESB programmes can play a role in promoting social integration and group cohesiveness within schools and potentially in the wider society. The author also makes a number of recommendations for stakeholders and policymakers, and suggests that SESB may indeed serve as a useful model for other multilingual areas of Europe.
Details
- Pages
- 388
- Publication Year
- 2010
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631604274
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Mulitlingual two-way immersion Migrant languages
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 386 pp., num. tables and graphs
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