Council of Europe

Curriculum convergences for plurilingual and intercultural education

Seminar
PROGRAMME

Council of Europe, Agora Building
29-30 November 2011

09.00 – 09.30

Registration (Room G04)

Chair:
Johanna Panthier

official opening

9.30 – 10.10

Opening
The objectives of the seminar in relation to the Guide for the development and implementation of curricula for plurilingual and intercultural education and other tools of the Language Policy Division – Johanna Panthier

Introductions

Summary of data collected through the questionnaire : Francis Goullier, General Rapporteur

Chair:
Mirjam Egli

Bloc A: Convergences between curricula for modern languages

10.10 – 10.20

Introduction : Overview of current convergences in this domain in the countries represented ; main thrusts and themes to be studied – Mirjam Egli

10.20 – 11.00

Case study  on “Making better use of convergences between the modern languages taught”: Switzerland (presentation and discussion)

11.00 – 11.30

Break

11.30 – 12.30

12.30 – 13.00

Case studies on “Making better use of convergences between the modern languages taught”: Austria and Slovak Republic (presentations and discussion)

Case study on “Convergences between the modern languages and home languages taught” : France (presentation and discussion)

13.00 – 14.30

Lunch

Chair :
Francis Goullier

Bloc B: Promoting innovations : practical implementations

14.30 – 14.40

14.40 – 15.10

15.10 – 15.40

Introduction

Case study on “Practical implementations that foster convergences between modern languages”: The Netherlands (presentation and discussion)

Case study on “Tools to support learning the languages of schooling as a means for learning”: Spain (presentation and discussion)

15.40 – 18.00

Group work

09.00 – 09.30

Reports on group work

Chair:
Jean-Claude Beacco

Bloc C: Intercultural Education

9.30 - 9.55

9.55 – 10.25

10.25 – 10.50

The place of intercultural education in the curricula – Jean-Claude Beacco

Case study on “The place of intercultural education in the curriculum”: Czech Republic (presentation and discussion)

Break

Chair:
Jean-Claude Beacco

Bloc D:
- Convergences between languages of schooling
- Convergences between modern languages and language(s) of schooling

10.50 – 11.00

Introduction – Jean-Claude Beacco

11.00 – 11.30

Case study on “Convergences between languages of schooling”: Luxembourg (presentation and discussion)

11.30 – 12.30

12.30 – 14.00

Case studies on “Convergences between modern languages and language(s) of schooling”: Bulgaria, Sweden (presentations and discussion)

Lunch

14.00 – 14.15

The Platform of resources and references for plurilingual and intercultural education – Johanna Panthier

Chair:
Marisa Cavalli

Bloc E: Longitudinal Convergences:  curriculum scenarios

14.15 – 14.25

Introduction to work on basic curriculum scenarios for prototypical case 1 : Introduction of a first modern language in ISCED 1 and of a second one in ISCED 2 – Marisa Cavalli
Outline scenarios : CITE 0, CITE 1, CITE 2, CITE 3

14.25 – 15.30

Peer and plenary discussions

15.30 – 16.15

Close :
Summary of main points discussed at the seminar – Francis Goullier
Next steps – Johanna Panthier