Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics
As pressure builds on the educational systems of the world to serve the needs of increasingly diverse multilingual populations and at a time when multilingualism and multiliteracy are clearly socially and economically advantageous, the need to understand relationships between language and education is particularly acute. Since its formulation in the 1970s, educational linguistics has been developing specifically to address this need.
A perfect combination between education and diversion: stories, songs and games have been developed and made by a team of qualified experts in the education of the English.
The project's evolution and history, its theoretical and conceptual perspectives, and a discussion of the methodological challenges encountered is presented. Four case studies from four very different project sites are also discussed. The final chapter summarizes what was learned from the case study sites as well as the 13 other sites and concludes with a discussion of the implications of the research
This book is the result of a seminar series entitled Mathematical Relationships: Identities and Participation held in the UK between September 2006 and July 2007. The seminars were funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the British Educational Research Association.
International Comparisons of Chinas Technical and Vocational Education and Training System
China is experiencing an unprecedented phenomenon: breakneck industrialization on a scale and at a pace not seen before. It is trying to achieve in just a few decades what Western nations took more than a century to do. The arrival in the country’s cities of tens of millions of rural dwellers, at most semi-skilled, has put huge strain on the country’s system of vocational education, known as TVET.
