Introduction

PART I: Legal perspectives on language in education
1. Language rights in education: the international framework
2. South African law and policy on language in education

PART II: Multilingualism, education and social integration in Belgium
3. Multilingualism, education and multicultural society: developments in Belgium
4. Which integration in which society? Belgian language politics in education

PART III: Multilingualism, education and social integration in other European countries
5. From diversity to unity and back again? Teaching local languages in a linguistically unified France
6. Multilingualism, education and social integration in the migratory and regional context of Luxembourg
7. Language diversity and language education: an introduction to the Swiss model

PART IV: Multilingualism, education and social integration in South Africa
8. Multilingualism and language-in-education policy in South Africa ? a historical overview
9. Rehabilitating mother-tongue and bilingual education – the role of civil society
10. Moving towards multilingualism in South African schools
11. Language-in-education policy in practice: a case study of a primary school in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
12. African Renaissance in South African schools: an exploration of selected features of a reconstructed school curriculum

PART V: Multilingualism, education and social integration in other SADC countries
13. Language and education in Africa: emancipation or alienation
14. Bilingualism and education in Mozambique: the historical relationship between Portuguese and Mozambican languages
15. Language and education in Namibia