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SUMMARY:Taking the Babble out of Babel: Forces\, mechanisms and counterwei
 ghts for building bilingual education systems - Dr Peeter Mehisto\, Instit
 ute of Education\, University of London  
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CONTACT:Laura Carnicero
DESCRIPTION:The complexities of bi- and trilingual education are manifold.
  This talk offers a construct for disentangling into three broad categorie
 s factors identified as contributing to or hindering the development of su
 ccessful bi- or trilingual education – forces\, mechanisms and counterwe
 ights. The construct arose from research into bilingual programme developm
 ent in Estonia\, and is informed by the presenter’s cooperation with the
  Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools in Kazakhstan. \n\nA force belongs to the
  ideational realm. It is a form of intellectual power that has the capacit
 y to affect people and events. An example of a force is a belief in the va
 lue of bilingual education. Forces can be harnessed to fuel action\, to em
 power mechanisms. In contrast to forces\, mechanisms are tangible. They be
 long to the material realm. A mechanism is part of a system that interacts
  with other parts and leads to something else being done or created. Polic
 y prescriptions are a mechanism. Counterweights can help keep a system in 
 balance. Finally\, the construct remains dependent on stakeholder knowledg
 e from numerous disciplines and broad skills sets. Ultimately bilingual ed
 ucation calls for ‘complexity competence’.\n\nThe seminar can also be 
 attended online via http://collab8.adobeconnect.com/kazakhstan_seminars
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DM
 B\, Room DMB 2S7
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