Education and Multicultural Societies, Module 3: Rethinking the Framework for 21st Century Bilingual Education.

Abstract

From the course Education and Multicultural Societies of the Master's degree in bilingual learning environments, the module entitled, Rethinking the framework for 21st century bilingual education, has the purpose of addressing actions for change in educational processes that involve bilingualism. In this sense, it analyzes the barriers and difficulties that characterize the educational dynamics in the 21st century and then invites members of different communities to generate contributions that reconfigure bilingual learning environments in terms of sociocultural diversity. Among the dimensions to be highlighted, equality and diversity are identified regarding the communities with minority languages. It is required to disseminate bilingual and multilingual communities through education actions and stakeholders’ participation to generate actions for change, disseminate the contributions and characteristics of these communities.