Reference : Developing Multilingual Pedagogies in Early Childhood: a review of the project MuLiPEC
Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Unpublished conference
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Education & instruction
Multilingualism and Intercultural Studies
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/41388
Developing Multilingual Pedagogies in Early Childhood: a review of the project MuLiPEC
English
Aleksic, Claudine mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS) >]
Aleksic, Gabrijela mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) >]
Mortini, Simone mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS) >]
Andersen, Katja Natalie mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS) >]
Di Letizia, Laurence []
27-Nov-2019
No
No
International
Gabrijela Aleksic
27-1-2019
University of Luxembourg
University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
[en] multilingual education ; early years ; Luxembourg
[en] Developing Multilingual Pedagogies in Early Childhood: a review of the project
The project MuLiPEC (2016-2019) addresses the need for multilingual pedagogies in early childhood education in Luxembourg. It offered a professional development (PD) course to develop the practitioners’ knowledge and skills in relation to multilingualism and effective pedagogies as well as their practices, and analysed the effects of the PD on the practitioners and the children’s languaging. We offered a first 15-hour course to 46 practitioners from formal and non-formal education settings. Of these, seven continued during one academic year. They were coached and took part in six network meetings where we discussed their practices. To analyse the results, we drew on observations of the PD and in the research settings, video-recorded activities, and interviews. The results show that all 46 participants opened up to multilingual education and deepened their understanding of multilingualism, language development and multilingual pedagogies. Furthermore, the seven focus practitioners implemented activities in multiple languages and deployed effective language supportive strategies. Five of them developed holistic and child-centred multilingual pedagogies. This paper presents these positive findings and raises questions related to the sustainability of PD course and the need to continue the implementation of these effective pedagogies.
Ministry of national Education, Childhood and Youth
Researchers
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/41388
FnR ; FNR9989225 > Claudine Kirsch > MuLiPEC > Developing multilingual pedagogies in Early Childhood Education > 01/05/2016 > 30/04/2019 > 2015

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