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Educating migrants will be the first SDG challenge for rich countries It is impossible to turn a blind eye to the arrival of so many hundreds of thousands of migrants* into Europe recently. According to Save… efareport.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/educating-migrants-will-be-the-first-sdg-challenge-for-rich-countries/

Randolph Hmm. The authors point out that the creation of new and flexible language learning programmes at schools is fundamental for accommodating the needs of migrants. No doubt about that. However, the problem obvously goes beyond the capacity of schools (and the education system in general). Complementary to the measures taking place inside the education system, new and innovative ideas are needed from all parts of the society.

At least in our country (Germany) there's a growing number of ordinary citizens who join together to offer language learning on a day-to-day basis. But there's huge obstacles, such as missing teaching concepts, teaching and learning materials volunteers could make use of in their language teaching, but also interfaces to the language teaching in schools. I'm pretty sure that there is many EU sponsored projects which have developed approaches, methods and materials which could be of great value towards improving the situation. However, at the moment I do not see the... Show more 9 years ago

Hmm. The authors point out that the creation of new and flexible language learning programmes at schools is fundamental for accommodating the needs of migrants. No doubt about that. However, the problem obvously goes beyond the capacity of schools (and the education system in general). Complementary to the measures taking place inside the education system, new and innovative ideas  are needed from all parts of the society.

At least in our country (Germany) there's a growing number of ordinary citizens who join together to offer language learning on a day-to-day basis. But there's huge obstacles, such as missing teaching concepts, teaching and learning materials volunteers could make use of in their language teaching, but also interfaces to the language teaching in schools. I'm pretty sure that there is many EU sponsored projects which have developed approaches, methods and materials which could be of great value towards improving the situation. However, at the moment I do not see the way how those already existing outcomes would easily transfer into practice without taking additional transfer measures. any ideas?

Thomas Fischer I would like to react to two points Randolph is referring to: European projects in the field of language learning for migrants and the transferability of their results. I would like to point you to the LLP project Bazaar - Learn and Exchange at the Market Place (www.bazaarproject.eu). Bazaar developed and implemented innovative and down to earth ways of language learning for migrants in every day settings i.e. at market places, in community centres, in museums, in parks and so on. Of specific interest is the so-called Transferability Toolkit and the so called Book of the Wor(l)d, both providing guidance to others on how to adopt the ideas of Bazaar (www.bazaarproject.eu/resources/).

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