Call for Proposals for The Inclusion, Mobility and Multilingual Education Conference.
24-26 September 2019 Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Bangkok, Thailand
Second Announcement and Call for Proposals
We are all currently witnessing unprecedented levels of human mobility. Alongside an increasingly mobile workforce and increased mobility for higher education, we are also seeing the highest levels ever of involuntary displacement, with over 68.5 million people forced from their homes, including 25.4 million refugees, over half of whom are under 18.
In the Asia–Pacific region, huge populations are moving for work and higher education, with internal displacement and cross-border migration due to conflict, poverty, climate change and social injustice creating increasingly complex ethnolinguistic landscapes. Challenges of inclusion, social cohesion and peace-building are raised for mobile populations but also for stable but linguistically marginalised populations, including issues of access to civic participation, justice, health and information.
At a time when many more children are in school, but many are still not learning, and in particular in the context of the declared United Nations Year of indigenous languages, fundamental questions remain about the balance of local, national and global languages in education.
We are pleased to announce that this year the 13th Language and Development Conference and the 6th Multilingual Education Conference will address the important issues of language, human mobility, multilingual education and development in a single event to be held in Bangkok over three days in September 2019.
Language and Development conferences have been held every two years since the early 1990s. The conference series provides an opportunity for policymakers, researchers, development personnel, teachers and linguists to come together to share views and explore issues concerning language use in development contexts. Details of previous Language and Development conferences can be found here.
Deadline for proposals: 3 March 2019.
Click here for the application and here for the conference website.