The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through
schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised …

I met Barun Digal in the early 1980s, a bright young grade 9 boy from a rural Nuagaon high
school in what was then called Phulbani (Boudh-Kandhamal), one of the least developed …

This very original, inspirational book globalises our understanding of languages in
education and changes our understanding of bilingual and multilingual education from …

This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and
interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual …

Languages are said to make us human; but they also dehumanize when they become
instruments of power for some and shame and guilt for others. For some, language is a road …

Language is not merely a means of communication. Language, thinking and learning are
inextricably linked. When children are forced to study through a language they cannot fully …

This paper discusses structural and ideological challenges to mother tongue-based
multilingual education (MTB-MLE) which has in recent years been gaining ground in many …

How can teachers enact ways of teaching and learning in the twenty-first century that
support social justice and political participation of students around the globe? The answer to …

[Bourgeois society] has set up that single unconscionable freedom Á Free Trade. In a word,
for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked …

Although multilingualism and multilingual education have existed for centuries, our 21st-
century entrance into the new millennium has brought renewed interest and contestation …