1.Educational Policy:Towards Plurilingualismand Social Cohesion Further information:[email_address] @NewsNeus Maria Nieves Lorenzo Gals

2. Future is for polyglots David Crystal

The Catalan plurilingual policy: a contribution for building a plural Europe

Inclusive approaches in education: promoting innovative teaching methodologies

Learning and teaching in plurilingualism: augmenting cognition strategies, communication skills, information sources,critical thinking, mutual aceptance and intercultural values.

Diversity, an opportunity for education 3. It is very difficult to stop seeing whats in our mind... ...Prejudice,Stereotype, Paradigm, Delusion... 4. An awareness-action model The best way to predict the futureis to invent it(Alan Kay, ICT pioneer) Ref:Intercultural approach . Aine Ferlong, Merc Bernaus & Neus Lorenzo, 2009 A Awareness Prejudices and attitudes towards cultural diversity A Aim Buildingfuture society as a shared project A Action Plurilingualism versusMultilingualism: The Catalan LIC-Plan Assessment 5. Awareness 6. Attitudes 7. Aim 8. Looking for social cohesionthrough school success for everybody Not assimilation... ...but inclusion 9. Action 10. Learning, communicating, and sharing in formal, informal and non formal education 11. Assessment 12. Achievement and results:to build a plural society in equity 13. New emergent realities Source:http://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=aec&n=274&t=2009&x=7&y=923.778 148.525 93.831 106.746 121.622 133.000 34.797 51.926 74.491 19.793 16.921 9.868 Idescat, 2010 Foreign students0.81% 13.65% 10.05% 7.65% 5.04% 9.03% 14.15% Students from immigrant families in Catalonia Cultural and religious diversity 14. Potential exclusion is increasing Ref: Toms Calvo Buezas, Inmigracin y multiculturalismo,gangrena d ela sociedad o enriquecimiento mutuo? pag. 44 en Antropologa en Castilla y Len e Iberoamrica: Emigracin e integracin, ngel B. Espina Barrio Source: Encuestas CEMIRA. Director: Toms Calvo Buezas. Percentage of students in agreementwith this statement: If it depended on me, I would expel them from the country .Average Spanish opinion,State School survey: 1986-2008 15. Our Challenge: toacceptdiversity as collective richness 16. Educational success for every student whatever their origin,their capacity,their starting point their family expectations... 17. European priorities

(November 2009)

Restarting economic growth today and ensuring longterm sustainability and competitiveness for the future

Fighting unemployment and reinforcing our social cohesion

Turning the challenge of a sustainable Europe to our competitive advantage

Ensuring the security of Europeans

Reinforcing EU citizenship and participation

Source:http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1837&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=en2020

• • • • Androulla VASSILIOU: Commissioner:Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

Priorities: Jos Manuel Barroso, president of the EU .

18. Building future 19. European priorities at Catalan school

• Competencies Inclusion

• Sustainability Research

• Citizenship Participation

Employability for 75 % of the aged 20-64

Invested in R&D: 3% of the EU's GDP.

The "20/20/20" climate/energy targets met.

Under 10% of early school leavers, and at least 40% youngsters with a diploma.

20 million less people at risk of poverty.

Indicators 20. Linguistic policy 2004-2010:LIC Plan (Language and Interculturality for social Cohesion)

Strategies:

Plurilingual School Project: the initial inclusive classes

Attitudinal School Project: the school welcoming plan

Decentralization and school autonomy: working in context

Aims:

School success for every student

Inclusive schools for social cohesion

Cultural and linguistic diversity as richness

21. Strategic Fields of action: Continuity andeducational coherence

Pla dentorn

Pla de convivncia escolar

Projecte Lingstic plurilinge

Environment Attitudinal School Project EducationEnvironment Plan Inclusive school Initial inclusive classroom PlurilingualSchool Project 22. Interculturaland plurilingual competencies

Language objectives:

Equal mastery of both official languages at the end of each educational stage.(Cast., Cat., Occit.)

Acquisition of one or two European foreign languages in the curriculum(Eng. Fr. It. Germ.)

Maintenance of family languages as further opportunities(Arabic, Amazigh, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese Rumanian, Ukrainian, Urdu...)

Plurilingualismversus multilingualism L5 L6 L1 L4 L3 L2 23. Integrating Competencies: Basic Skills for lifelong learning from language-subject to language-interaction The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment ,(CEFR) 1 2 3 4 Integration Disciplinary

Vocabulary

Grammar

Orthography

- Phonetics

Textual typology

Interdisciplinary

-Speaking

- Listening

- Reading

Writing - Conversation

G L O B A L Meta-disciplinary

- Thought

- Communication

Discovery

Interacting

Living together

C O M P E T E N C Y 24. Comparison of PISA results: 2006-2009 But we are still under the European average! Reading & textual comprehensionimproves worldwide Maths impoves in Catalonia Science and comprehension of worldremains static 25. Fuente: Encuestas CEMIRA. Director Toms Calvo Buezas.https://bdigital.ufp.pt/dspace/bitstream/10284/1811/3/43-68.pdfPercentage of students in agreement with this statement: Immigrants from outside the EU, but legally established, should have the same rights as national citizens Acceptance of equal rights 26. Our future challenges ...finding resources ? collective efforts? 27. Educational Policy:Towards Plurilingualismand Social Cohesion Further information:[email_address] @NewsNeus Maria Nieves Lorenzo Gals Thank you!