#Mother tongue-based Multilingual Education

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities in social, political, educational, and economic systems, thus promising lifelong impacts for many members of the world’s diverse societies. The already marginalized, for instance, will emerge...

On International Mother Language Day 2023, it is time to reflect on how multilingual education is key to the recovery and transformation of education systems for all learners. By Brandon Darr, Consultant, Inclusive Quality Education Section, UNESCO Asia...

The immense loss of biodiversity in recent years has sounded the alarm for innovative, sustainable solutions to climate change. Increasingly, we recognize that local wisdom lying outside more formal knowledge and education systems can help address this...

—Mother-tongue learning for ethnic minority children highlighted in outcome statement, which will inform the Transforming Education Summit (TES) at UN General Assembly in September— Asia-Pacific Multilingual Education Working Group members UNESCO Bangkok...

Read how a new approach utilizing online and social media to teach mother tongue-based multilingual education can help foster better social cohesion in multilingual and multicultural schools and communities. Globally, tireless advocacy work led by...