[Edling] Online Event | 5 June | Building Back Better: Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education for Ethnic Minority Children

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

https://bangkok.unesco.org/content/building-back-better-mother-tongue-based-multilingual-education-ethnic-minority-children?fbclid=IwAR3-oTKYyjBAJwKWd5t0Iims_S9DtZjqXnk1Sbv3f2b-wOwLr423kbjgcW4

Building Back Better: Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education for Ethnic
Minority Children
17 May 2022
[image: Building Back Better: Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education
for Ethnic Minority Children]

*Side Event for 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Education Minister’s Conference
(APREMC-II)
<https://bangkok.unesco.org/content/2nd-asia-pacific-regional-education-ministers-conference-apremc-ii>*

Global research has demonstrated that children who speak ethnic minority
languages at home yet study in majority languages at school exhibit lower
levels of literacy and numeracy than their peers. More recently, with the
onset of the COVID-19 pandemic these ethnolinguistic minority children have
fallen even further behind, partly due to their inability to access
distance learning materials in languages they understand. In addition, many
of these children are representative of a ‘digital divide’ in their lacking
electronic devices or internet access in low socioeconomic or
geographically remote communities.

The side event, ‘Building Back Better: Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual
Education for Ethnic Minority Children’ will discuss how mother
tongue-based multilingual education (MTB MLE) can significantly help such
learners. Our expert panel will address fundamental issues with guiding
questions, such as:

   - What is MTB MLE and how does it improve students’ learning outcomes?
   - How does MTB MLE help students learn other languages, including
   English?
   - What digital learning tools are most helpful for children who don’t
   speak the school language and have limited internet access?
   - How does MTB MLE engage local communities and promote social harmony
   and inclusion?
   - How would endorsing UNESCO’s Bangkok Statement on Language and
   Inclusion help a country achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4)?

*Target Audience*

The target audience for this side event consists of regional and national
level education stakeholders, especially policy-makers and practitioners,
to enhance their understanding of how multilingual education can play a
role in the post-pandemic process of ‘building back better’ and achieving
SDG 4 for all, especially ethnolinguistic minority children.

*Working Language*

English; no additional language accommodations provided.

*Date, Time and Format*

Sun, 5 June 2022
12.45 – 13.45 (Bangkok time; GMT+7)
Zoom Conferencing (Hybrid)

*Registration*

Registration is free but required in advance; upon registering, you will
receive a unique join URL via email:
https://unesco-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtceGgrzgtHNFKglDpoHF88tFDnBA7dMHi

*For more Information*

Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group Secretariat
E-mail: mlewg at unesco.org
*Agenda*

Sun, 5 June 2022, 12.45 – 13.45 (Bangkok time; GMT+7)

Moderator:

   - Kyungah Kristy Bang, Programme Officer, UNESCO Asia and Pacific
   Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok)

12.45 – 12.50

Welcome and Introduction from the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education
Working Group

   - Kyungah Kristy Bang, Programme Officer, UNESCO Asia and Pacific
   Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok)

12.50 – 13.25

Panelists

   - ‘Language and the Learning Gap in Asia: Evidence from SEA-PLM’ –
   SEAMEO Secretariat
   - ‘MLE Transformation in the Philippines: a Policymaker’s Perspective’ –
   Dina Ocampo, Professor, University of the Philippines and former
   Undersecretary for Department of Education, Philippines
   - ‘The Bangkok Statement on Language and Inclusion and SDG 4’ – Kirk
   Person, Senior Consultant in Literacy and Education, SIL International

13.25 – 13.35

Global response

   - Maki Katsuno-Hayashikawa, Director, Division of Education 2030 Support
   and Coordination, UNESCO Headquarters

13.35 – 13.45

Wrap Up/Closing comments

   - Erin Tanner, Education Specialist, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific
   Regional Office (EAPRO)

*Resources*

Webinar recording (*to be made available after the event*)

Presentation slides

Concept note and agenda

Speakers' biographies

See the Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group (MLE WG) webpage
<https://bangkok.unesco.org/content/asia-pacific-multilingual-education-working-group>
for more information on the MLE WG and the previous sessions of the
regional webinar series.
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