Message from Ms Audrey Azoulay,Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day, 21 February 2018
Today, UNESCO marks the nineteenth International Mother Language Day. This is an opportunity to recall our Organization’s commitment to defending and promoting languages.
To showcase best-practice examples of literacy programmes around the world, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) has published a series of thematic compilations drawn from the UNESCO Effective...
UIL assists training institutions in Senegal and Uganda in developing courses for educators using participatory action research methods. This approach aims to enhance the quality of youth and adult literacy education and learning.
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with the UNESCO Multi-sectoral Regional Office for West Africa in Abuja, has published a guidebook on how action research can enhance youth and adult literacy education and learning. This guidebook can be used as a resource for...
An international seminar on the uses of literacy-related terminology in different European languages took place at UIL from 2 to 3 February. The event was co-organised by UIL and the National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC) of the Institute of Education,...
Professor Francis Hult, an educational linguist from Lund University (Sweden) visited UIL from 3 to 15 December as part of his sabbatical activities. UIL thanks him for taking the initiative to come to UIL and for his kind collaboration.
Professor Hult provided input on how the decisive...
UIL, together with the UNESCO Office Multi-sectoral Regional Office for West Africa in Dakar (BREDA) and the UNESCO Regional Office in Abuja is coordinating the development of a West African curriculum framework for formal and non-formal bilingual education. As part of this initiative seven...
A workshop took place from 16 to 18 April 2014 in Abuja, Nigeria to plan the piloting of a new guidebook entitled Research to Improve Youth and Adult Literacy: Empowering Learners in a Multilingual World. Participants included representatives of the Nigerian RAYL (Revitalising Adult and Youth...
Mother tongue-based multilingual education is a lever for quality in education in multilingual African contexts. Building on UNESCO’s prior work with the African region UNESCO/BREDA, UIL and the African Academy of Languages recently collaborated with the Summer Institute of Linguistics in...
