EDUCATION FOR A MULTI-LINGUAL COMMUNITY (EUROPE)

Abstract

Since the war, migrations on a grand scale of the kind that used to cross the Atlantic have been taking place between the countries of the European Community. Looking for alternatives to the enforced absorption of millions of children into the alien and unilingual schools of their foster-nations, McConnell explores the models offered by a number of "international" schools which have set out to make a virtue of the mix of cultures and languages among their students, and which frequently function in more than one language, bilingually or even multilingually. As so often, the practice of such schools reminds us that difficulties occasioned by such things as differences of language and custom, far from being fraught with omems of disaster, are full of educational opportunities for school children.