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Download full textBuchberger, Irina – 2000
Education policies of the European Commission and the Council of Europe stress the importance of cultural and language diversity. A white book by the European Commission on education and training recommends that every European citizen be able to communicate in at least 3 of the 12 officially recognized languages of the European Union by the end of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Shafer, Susanne M. – 1983
Bilingual education programs and policies in three countries with sizable minorities, Sweden, Australia, and the Federal Republic of Germany, are examined in order to gauge both the extent to which children with limited proficiency in the dominant language are in integrated classrooms and the degree of their social integration. First, the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Policy
