[lg policy] Re: lgpolicy-list Digest, Vol 14, Issue 28

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will like to be part of the november conference am working on my abstract

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>    1. Re: State literacy question (Emily McEwan-Fujita)
>    2. Estonia Raises Pencil to Erase Russian (Damien Hall)
>    3. Fwd: [MLE WG List] 3rd Conference Announcement and Call	for
>       Papers: Language,	Education and the Millennium Development Goals
>       (MDGs) Conference,	Nov. 9-11, 2010 (Kirk Person)
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:22:40 -0400
> From: Emily McEwan-Fujita <emilymcfujita at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lg policy] State literacy question
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> Thank you very much to everyone who responded to my question about state
> literacy statistics! Your responses were very helpful. I am actually using
> your perspectives and sources to inform a section of a paper I am finishing
> up about literacy in a minority language. The paper is titled "The Ideology
> of Literate Speakerhood in Interactions between Adult Gaelic Learners and
> First-Language Gaelic Speakers in Scotland", and it will be coming out in
> vol. 26 of the journal Scottish Gaelic Studies this November (with a
> footnote thanking everyone of course!).
>
> I had wanted to find some statistics on adult literacy rates in English in
> the UK to compare with various government-generated reports on adult
> literacy in Scotland, and to use all of this and the critique of states'
> ideological concerns with offical state language literacy to provide a wider
> perspective for my discussion of the 2001 Scottish census statistics on
> Scottish Gaelic literacy.
>
> The very interesting thing, if one follows the trail from Wikipedia to the
> UN to the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, is that the UNESCO IS doesn't
> actually have a literacy rate figure for the UK. The figure of 99% literacy
> for the UK quoted in Wikipedia (drawn from the UN Human Development Report
> 2009) was a made-up figure created as a stand-in so that the UN report
> authors could calculate the UK's 2007 Human Development Index score. They
> did this for quite a few of the states, but there is no rationale given for
> it in the footnotes of the table! More grist for the mill...
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> Thank you,
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> Emily McEwan-Fujita
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> Date: 16 Jun 2010 22:54:13 +0100
> From: Damien Hall <djh514 at york.ac.uk>
> Subject: [lg policy] Estonia Raises Pencil to Erase Russian
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> The Economist has a new blog on language, 'Johnson' (as in Dr Samuel
> Johnson, the early lexicographer). The latest post is a reaction to the
> story featured here before about Estonian inspectors checking that teachers
> are teaching in Estonian:
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> http://j.mp/JohnsonLangLaws
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> Damien
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> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:37:50 +0700
> From: Kirk Person <kirk_person at sil.org>
> Subject: [lg policy] Fwd: [MLE WG List] 3rd Conference Announcement
> 	and Call	for Papers: Language,	Education and the Millennium
> 	Development Goals (MDGs) Conference,	Nov. 9-11, 2010
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> Language, Education and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
> November 9-11, 2010 * Bangkok, Thailand
>
> http://www.seameo.org/LanguageMDGConference2010/
>
> 3rd Announcement & Call for Papers
>
> An international conference on “Language, Education and the Millennium
> Development Goals” will be held November 9-
> 11 in Bangkok, Thailand sponsored by a consortium of organizations from the
> Asia Multilingual Education Working
> Group, including: UNESCO, UNICEF, SEAMEO, Mahidol University, SIL
> International, Save the Children, CARE, Asia
> Pacific Basic and Adult Education, Asia Institute of Technology and the
> Royal Thai Institute.
>
> Join with representatives of government and intergovernmental agencies,
> NGOs, academics and local civil society during
> a three-day forum to dialogue about: the state of development of
> ethnolinguistic minorities, the relevance of local
> languages in achieving education and development goals, and the development
> of programs and policies that better reach
> these underserved groups.
>
> Purpose
> Languages are more than tools for communication; they help shape the
> identity of individuals and groups, as well as
> serving as a key element in social integration and cultural development. As
> such, languages are also strategically
> important for the attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and
> Education for All (EFA).
> Despite aggregate gains worldwide in achieving the MDGs and EFA, the state
> of development for the world’s
> ethnolinguistic minorities continues to lag behind, putting them at risk for
> even greater disparities that hinder efforts to
> overcome poverty, illiteracy and disease; as well as increasing the
> likelihood of conflict arising from exclusion.
> This conference provides a forum to enhance understanding, inspire
> meaningful action and increase access to
> education and development opportunities for ethnolinguistic communities,
> through:
> • Increasing understanding of the linkages between language and achieving
> the MDGs and EFA
> • Fostering connections among a broad set of actors to support activities
> that integrate language and education as
> crosscutting themes in achieving the MDGs and EFA
> • Informing policy makers and development partners on good practices to
> effectively incorporate language and
> education into strategies and policies to achieve the MDGs and EFA
>
> Tracks
> The conference features four thematic tracks, which incorporate language and
> education as crosscutting themes:
> 1. Language and Universal Primary Education (MDG 2 / EFA 1, 2, 6)
> • Linguistic and cultural considerations in strategies that seek to achieve
> universal primary education
> • Access and retention of children speaking non-dominant versus dominant
> languages in primary education
> • Role of learners’ first language (L1) – or mother tongue – versus
> languages of wider communication (national,
> official or international languages) in primary education
> • Multilingual education as a way towards universal primary education (UPE)
> • Language in early childhood education and development: multilingual
> education to facilitate smooth integration
> into primary school
> • Relationship between adult literacy in L1 and UPE
> • Integration of local language and culture effectively into education
> policies and programs
>
> 2. Language and Gender Equality (MDG 3 / EFA 5)
> • Linguistic and cultural considerations in strategies to promote gender
> equality and empower women
> • The role of life-long learning in overcoming gender biases and
> discrimination, including how lifelong learning
> empowers both girls and boys, women and men
> • Situation of women and girls in ethnolinguistic minority communities
> relative to their counterparts in dominant
> language speaking communities
> • Ways that local language and culture have been effectively integrated in
> policies and programs to ensure equitable
> development opportunities, improved status and treatment of both sexes
>
> 3. Language, Health, Nutrition and Protection (MDGs 4, 5, 6)
> • Evidence and support for integrating local language and culture into
> policies and programs on health,
> nutrition and protection
> • Providing equitable access to appropriate health and social welfare
> services for ethnolinguistic minority
> communities
> • Utilizing language and culture to build good knowledge and practice for
> early childhood care and
> reproductive health
> • Linguistic and cultural strategies to minimize the impact of communicable
> diseases (i.e. HIV/AIDS, TB and
> malaria)
> • Professional social work practices across languages and cultures to
> prevent and respond to violence, abuse,
> neglect and exploitation
> • Community-based mechanisms (e.g. diversion and restorative justice
> programs) to uphold the rights of
> children in ethnolinguistic minority communities
>
> 4. Language and Sustainable Development (MDGs 1,7 / EFA 3, 4)
> • Language diversity and intangible cultural heritage in poverty reduction
> and environmental preservation
> strategies
> • Language as a determinant of access to resources to alleviate extreme
> poverty and hunger, or mitigate
> environmental degradation
> • Role of language in adult education and poverty reduction
> • Language and participation in poverty reduction programs
> • Community-based approaches to poverty reduction and environmental
> sustainability
> • Drawing on language and culture to expand access to safe drinking water
> and improved sanitation facilities
>
> Abstract Submissions:
> Abstracts of proposed papers will be accepted until July 30. Selected
> presenters will be notified by August 20. We
> welcome submission of papers and perspectives representing a broad range of
> viewpoints and that highlight relevant
> local, national or comparative research and practice in the four thematic
> areas of the conference.
> • Abstract submissions should be no more than 250 words in English and
> should clearly identify the paper's
> topic and the relevance to the conference.
> • Abstract submitters should identify the track they feel is best suited to
> their work out of the four tracks listed
> in the conference announcement. The conference steering committee reserves
> the right to include your
> paper for consideration in a track other than the one you identify, if
> deemed appropriate.
> • Abstracts will be compiled and reviewed by three independent reviewers per
> track.
> Registration Fees
> Registration fees cover the following items: conference kit, access to
> plenary and panel sessions, morning and afternoon
> refreshments and buffet lunches for the three days of the conference. Online
> registration will open mid June 2010.
> • Thai Participants: 4,950 Thai Baht
> • International (Non-Thai) Participants: US$250/person
>
> Scholarships
> A limited number of scholarships are available for participants that
> demonstrate financial need as well as ability to bring
> relevant expertise and a diverse perspective to the conference. Scholarship
> applications will be available through the
> online registration process beginning in mid June.
>
> More information on the conference program, venue and plenary speakers will
> be forthcoming. To submit abstracts or
> request further information about the conference, please email
> lcssw at mahidol.ac.th and cc: rm.gesuden at unesco.org.
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