EDUCATION FOR A MULTI-LINGUAL COMMUNITY (EUROPE)

Authors

  • James McConnell Eton College

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.

Author Biography

James McConnell, Eton College

James McConnell, for twenty years a master at Eton College, which he made the subject of three books, has written over two dozen novels under a penname. In 1974 he was appointed Honorary Research Fellow of the Graduate School of Modern European Studies at the University of Reading, and also became Consultant on international schools to the Department of Research, Education and Science, of the Commission for the European Community.

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Published

1978-04-01

How to Cite

McConnell, J. (1978). EDUCATION FOR A MULTI-LINGUAL COMMUNITY (EUROPE). McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 13(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7204

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Vol. 13 No. 002 (1978)

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