The community directive, 77/486/EEC: Origins and implementation

• Autores: Norman Thomson
• Localización: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, ISSN 0143-4632, Vol. 4, Nº. 6, 1983, págs. 437-458
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper defends the directive, which is under attack from local education authorities and universities in England, by referring to certain principles of English teaching and mainstream practice in our schools. It goes on to examine the origins of the directive in order to prove that this piece of Community legislation appeared after some thirty years of neglect and was intended to assist both the personal development of migrants’ children and the successful conduct of education services and social welfare services in many cities throughout northern Europe. In doing so, the paper draws upon a good deal of information which is written down in ethnic minority community languages (though not in English) in the belief that this method of study is the right one for the subject. There is another theme which runs through the paper. It is the idea that to cultivate bilingualism is to keep open England's windows upon the rest of the world.