Language is essential for participation. No wonder that language plays an important part in adult civic education and requirements for naturalization.
Researchers distinguish roughly two metho...
This book reflects the contributions to a conference on Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants (Council of Europe, 2016).Chapter 4, p. 201-206Abstract:
Educational courses that...
Current civic integration courses are mostly language and knowledge-based and do not take the complex efforts into account that migrants face whilst building a new life in a foreign society. Since 2002, Vantrood Educational Services is researching and developing methods for psycho-social ...
Recent referenda and elections, like the EU-referendum in the United Kingdom of June 23d, show that fear of migrants provokes an open jump shot in public debate. At a recent family meeting, the solution to 'stop migrants' was almost victoriously expressed by some o...
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Participatory adult learning methods are well-known in developing countries, but they are lacking in the array of integration programmes in Europe. Most linguistic oriented courses a...
We recently published this article about IDEAL/Themis in the Journal of Intercultural Relations (Elsevier).
Hyperlink > to the full text article (open access)Background. Courses for migrants in Europe are mostly aimed at literacy in western languages as a means for participation in soci...