Bilingual education searching for promising didactic proposals

Bilingual education searching for promising didactic proposals

In the Basque context, the English-French bilingual education systems from Canada and Quebec are considered an indispensable reference for the Basque-Spanish and Basque-French bilingual schools, which, for the approximately last 40 years, constitute a keystone for the revitalization process of the Basque language (Zalbide, 1998). One of the crucial contributions of English-French bilingual educ...

Searching for a Bilingual Exit

Hong Kong is a monolingual (Cantonese-speaking) and ethnically homogeneous (ninetyeight per cent Chinese) society However, since the late 1950s a growing number of her primary school students have opted to continue their secondary education in English-medium (EM) AngloChinese secondary schools (ACSSs) rather than in Chinese-medium (CM) Chinese middle schools (CMSs). In 1958, as shown in Table 1...

Unfolding Education for Sustainable Development as Didactic Thinking and Practice

This article‘s primary objective is to unfold how teachers translate education for sustainable development (ESD) in a school context. The article argues that exploring tensions, ruptures and openings apparent in this meeting is crucial for the development of existing teaching practices in relation to ESD. The article draws on doctoral research involving interviews with researchers and teachers ...

Towards a Design Process for Didactic Game Development: experiences and proposals of the Edumovil project

Even though there are many kinds of software the development processes are mostly defined for general purpose. Didactic games have characteristics that distinguish them from other types of software and this is not reflected in the actual processes. Furthermore, no relevant development process for computer games is known. In this paper we present an initial proposal of a process for the developm...

Bilingual Education for China’s Ethnic Minorities