Rethinking Inclusion in Plurilingual Education

https://www.britishcouncil.es/en/events/rethinking-inclusion-plurilingual-education

Synopsis
There are huge challenges around inclusion policies and inclusive practices in education and some argue that these challenges are even more difficult to address in plurilingual and bilingual education programmes. Is this true? Does learning through another language make any or all areas of inclusion more difficult and if so, how can we mitigate this? Critics often question the inclusion policies and practice in schools in these programmes, but are they right to do so? Are these different from those in other schools? Should they be? What can we all do to ensure that plurilingual and bilingual programmes provide a successful education for all?
Join our interactive discussion with speakers from the UK and Spain. 

Our Speakers

Professor Tony Booth, Director, Index for Inclusion Network
Tony will consider what it means to develop schools inclusively and how that relates to developing thriving bilingual schools.  He will suggest that inclusion is fundamentally an answer to a question about values: “how should we live together?” and that this requires a second question for education: “what do we need to know to live together well”. These are the questions that are worked out in minute detail in “the Index for Inclusion: a guide to school development led by inclusive values.” 

Dr Marisa Pérez Cañado Universidad de Jaén

Mariano Fernández Enguita, Catedrático de Sociología, Univ. Complutense, Director del Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública

Sonja Uhlmann, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, British Council Spain

Chair: Mark Levy, Head English Programmes, British Council Spain

Professor Tony Booth

Tony Booth is a professor of education who worked in universities for 35 years, teaching, writing and researching inclusion and exclusion within education settings and systems., having worked as a science teacher and an educational psychologist. He is the main author of the «Index for Inclusion: a guide to school development led by inclusive values.  He integrates a concern to reduce and reverse climate and biodiversity breakdown into his educational approach.

Dr Marisa Pérez Cañado

Dr. María Luisa Pérez Cañado is Full Professor at the Department of English Philology of the University of Jáen, where she is also Rector’s Delegate for European Universities and Language Policy. She is currently coordinating the first intercollegiate MA degree on bilingual education and CLIL in Spain and four research projects on attention to diversity in CLIL. She holds the Ben Massey Award for the quality of her scholarly contributions on issues that make a difference in higher education.

Mariano Fernández Enguita

Mariano is Director of INAP and catedrático of Sociology at the Complutense University Madrid where he has coordinated the Doctorate in Education and created the Hiperaula Project.  He is author of 300 articles and 20 books, including La educación en la encrucijada (2016),  Más escuela y menos aula and La innovación educativa en un cambio de época (2018). His research focuses on inequalities in education and social change.  He is part of the REDE network and blogs here.

Sonja Uhlmann – Safeguarding Manager and EDI Country Lead

A person can be considered «lucky» when their passion becomes their profession.  This is how Sonja feels about her work at the British Council.  Sonja firmly believes in safeguarding and promoting childrens’ rights and creating a safe and stimulating environment for their education, well-being and development.  Sonja ensures that our values of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are embeded throughout our work in Spain and Europe.  

Mark Levy

Mark’s passions are football, music, his family and education and his story at the British Council began in 1994 while teacher training.  Since 2010 Mark has been Head of English Programmes in Spain and responsible for our work with the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training  and the Regional Education Authorities to promoting quality teaching and learning outcomes in Bilingual and Plurilingual Education.