Basic education and adult learning in multilingual contexts

Overview

UIL has mainstreamed the promotion of mother-tongue-based multilingual education within its major programmes (CONFINTEA, LIFE and Priority Region Africa) as a guiding principle... more

Publications

Why and how Africa should invest in African languages and multilingual education

In a 1953 landmark publication, UNESCO underscored the importance of educating children in their mother-tongue (UNESCO, 1953). Yet, more than 50 years since the first UNESCO statement, and despite a plethora of books, articles, numerous conventions, declarations and recommendations addressing...more

Kwa nini na kwa namna gani Afrika inapaswa kuwekeza katika lugha za Kiafrika na elimu kwa lugha nyingi

(Swahili version of the publication entitled “Why and how Africa should invest in African languages and multilingual education”)more

Literacy and Multiculturality: Latin American Perspectives

This publication provides an analysis of and recommendations on literacy learning for indigenous youth and adults in multicultural and multilingual contexts. The publication is based on seven studies on the topic carried out in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru in...more