Languages and Inclusive Education
©UNESCO/Michel Ravassard
Braille workshop, France
Ongoing initiatives aimed at enhancing the quality of learning and promoting inclusive education involve the language factor.
These include a strategy for the elaboration of high quality, culturally relevant textbooks and learning materials in the languages of the learning community, and recommendations for influencing educational policies and practices worldwide.
Key documents
- Advocacy Kit for Promoting Multilingual Education: Including the excluded
2007 - In some countries in Asia, bi/multilingual education programmes, through non-formal education, are helping to prepare ethnic/linguistic minority learners for literacy in both mother tongue and national languages. - Report of the Experts meeting on “Enhancing learning: from access to success defining areas of action” 2007
- “A comprehensive strategy for textbooks and learning materials document ”
2005 - Is addressing issues relating to textbooks of quality.
