The Conference was intended for those responsible for curriculum development and teacher training for any school subject. 

National representatives had been nominated by national education authorities.

Report of the Intergovernmental Conference on ”The language dimension in all subjects: equity and quality in education”

 Handbook: ‘The language dimension in all school Subjects’ 

 Information Note

The aim of the seminar was to draw on the expertise of the participants to gain understanding of the potential challenges in implementing the recommendations of the draft Handbook on the same subject, and to gather suggestions for any measures that might support its implementation.

  Report of the Seminar on The language dimension in all subjects.

Language is the central medium of teaching and learning and the main way that learners demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. Competence in language is the basis of successful learning.

This event was an opportunity for those responsible for education policies or for curriculum development (of any school subject) to discuss the role of languages in preventing failure at school, and to contribute to furthering quality and inclusion in education.

Participants: national representatives nominated by national education authorities.

Report of the Intergovernmental Conference on "Quality and inclusion in education: the unique role of language"

Participants : a limited number of members of the “European network of curriculum institutes or ministerial departments in charge of curriculum development”

Objectives: As for the previous events in this series, this 3rd seminar (focusing on primary education) aimed at promoting the values and approaches presented in the Guide for the development and implementation of curricula for plurilingual and intercultural education in a practical and efficient way.

Report of the seminar on Plurilingual and Intercultural Education in primary education

Participants: a restricted number of members of the “European network of curriculum institutes or ministerial departments in charge of curriculum development”

Objectives:

• (i) to identify the necessary language requirements for developing subject literacy as well as the relationship within and across subject literacies;
• (ii) to present and compare procedures for formulating frameworks to materialise the notion of subject literacies

Report of the restricted Seminar on Languages of Schooling in all subjects

Report ot the restricted Seminar on Plurilingual and Intercultural Education in vocational education and training curricula

This intergovernmental policy Forum was held at the generous invitation of the Swiss authorities, and was organised jointly by the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (CDIP) and the Language Policy Division.

Programme including presentations

Report of the Forum

4 series of documents prepared for the Forum

Participation in this Forum was limited to delegates officially nominated by their national authorities (Steering Committee for Education – CDED) and to International non-governmental organisations (INGOs) holding participatory status at the Council of Europe according to their profile.

Conference Report

List of Conference documents

Programme

Information Note

The 2007 conference enabled work on the development of a common framework of reference, in the form of an electronic platform, to progress. The purpose of the framework is to help elaborate policies and practices capable of meeting the specific challenges of the language of schooling.

Report of the follow-up intergovernmental Conference: "Languages of schooling within a European framework for languages of education: learning, teaching, assessment"

• A European Reference Document for Languages of Education?
• List of studies produced for the Conference

The 2006 conference marked the begining of the languages of schooling project within the wider context of the "languages of education" concept. This was the first time the member states had been officially consulted in order to define future work.

Report of the Intergovernmental Conference: "Languages of Schooling: towards a Framework for Europe"

• Towards a Common European Instrument for Language(s) of Education
• Content considerations for a framework of reference for Language(s) of School Education
• European Frameworks of Reference for Language Competences
• Languages and Identities
• List of studies produced for the Conference

Individual studies are contained in the Final Report of the Krakow Conference (pdf documents - available online at the website of Jagiellonian University - Poland) and are followed by 24 papers discussing the relationship between terms, concepts, notions, understandings and practices of the educational and academic fields in question.