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Bachelor 2024/2025

Introduction to Multilingual and Multicultural Education

Type: Elective course (Psychology)
Area of studies: Psychology
Delivered by: School of Psychology
When: 3 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies: distance learning
Online hours: 20
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Elena Lvova
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The processes of globalization are highly complex and influence the multi-layered structures of societies: economic, socio-cultural, political, linguistic and education aspects among others. A remarkable increase in global migration flows, especially over the last decade, required from the host countries to pay particular attention to the provision of equal education opportunities. Children of migrants, frequently not being (fluent) speakers of the official/national language(s) of the host country, need, and above all, have the right, to get access to good quality education. In addition, in today’s highly competitive labour-market, learning global/international languages (e.g. English) is seen as a necessity. How and at what age should children start learning an additional language (or languages)? Do bilingual/multilingual children perform better at school than their monolingual peers? Which language/education policies are successful and which are not? What challenges students and teachers face in a multilingual/multicultural classroom? What measures do educators, schools, communities need to take in order to make the multilingual and multicultural learning space more effective? The course Introduction to Multilingual and Multicultural Learning makes an attempt to provide answers to these and other related questions with reference to the latest research and discussion of different case studies. This coup you can find: https://www.coursera.org/learn/multilingual-multicultural-education , Denis Zubalov - university lecturer, course of HSE university.