Engaging with Linguistic Diversity: A Study of Educational Inclusion in an Irish Primary School

by Déirdre Kirwan and David Little

Book Overview

Engaging with Linguistic Diversity describes an innovative and highly successful approach to inclusive plurilingual education at primary level. The approach was developed by Scoil Bhr de (Cail n ), Blanchardstown, as a way of converting extreme linguistic diversity - more than 50 home languages in a school of 320 pupils - into educational capital. The central feature of the approach is the inclusion of home languages in classroom communication...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135019249X
• ISBN13: 9781350192492
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"