[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 49, Issue 8

Mon Oct 24 22:17:47 UTC 2011

Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu

Today's Topics:

  1. Advocacy Kit for promoting Multilingual Education:        Including
     the Excluded (Francis Hult)
  2. Languages in Education Web Resources (Francis Hult)
  3. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Francis Hult)
  4. MOST Clearing House for Linguistic Rights (Francis Hult)
  5. Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet (Francis Hult)
  6. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National        or
     Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (Francis Hult)

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From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Advocacy Kit for promoting Multilingual Education:
       Including the Excluded
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Advocacy Kit for promoting Multilingual Education: Including the Excluded

The kit is meant to raise awareness on the importance of mother-tongue-based
multilingual education to reach the goals of EFA. It presents the value and
benefits of mother tongue instruction and is targeting policy makers,
education practitioners and specialists.

Strat?gie de formation des enseignants en enseignement bilingue additif pour
les pays du sahelThis publication aims at boosting the use of mother tongue
instruction and bilingual education in these countries (in French).

Available here:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/languages-in-education/multilingual-education/

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:02:01 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Languages in Education Web Resources
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Languages in Education

UNESCO promotes mother tongue-based bilingual or multilingual approaches in
education - an important factor for inclusion and qualilty in education.
Research shows this has a positive impact on learning and learning outcomes.

The Organization provides normative frameworks for language policy and
education and shares good practices in bilingual and multilingual education
and mother tongue instruction.

Read more:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/languages-in-education/

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:05:59 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the
General Assembly on Thursday September 13, by a majority of 144 states in
favour, 4 votes against (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United
States) and 11 abstentions (Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi,
Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Samoa and Ukraine). <
http://unbisnet.un.org:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=voting&index=.VM&term=ares61295
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http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:08:26 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] MOST Clearing House for Linguistic Rights
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MOST Clearing House for Linguistic Rights

International Human Rights Law plays an important role in setting standards
for linguistic rights and, especially, for the protection and promotion of
the identity of linguistic minority groups. It provides the normative
framework for developing principles of democratic governance and
multicultural policies aimed at managing ethno-linguistic conflict.

To raise awareness about linguistic rights and to provide tools for
decision-makers in governments, parliaments, and civil society, UNESCO's
MOST Programme has collected the most relevant provisions in international
conventions, declarations and multilateral treaties, which pertain to
linguistic rights.

More information:

http://www.unesco.org/most/ln2int.htm

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:10:29 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet
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Measuring linguistic diversity on the Internet

The Language Observatory Project (LOP), the World Network for Linguistic
Diversity and UNESCO have been working since 2002 to develop scientific
methodologies to measure the presence of languages in the cyberspace and
raise awareness on this very relevant component of cultural and linguistic
diversity.

More information:

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/linguistic-diversity-on-internet/measuring-linguistic-diversity-on-the-internet/

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:13:24 -0500
From: Francis Hult <francis.hult at utsa.edu>
Subject: [Edling] Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to
       National        or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
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Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic,
Religious and Linguistic Minorities

The General Assembly,

Reaffirming that one of the main purposes of the United Nations, as
proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, is to achieve international
cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for
fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language
or religion...

Full text:

http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/47/a47r135.htm

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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