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In the fall of 2024, Martine, a graduate student from the Netherlands, joined the ESCAPE project to share her knowledge of the Dutch education system. During these months, she wrote a section about the Netherlands for the ESCAPE website and created a Dutch version of the 12-lesson booklet as part of her internship.  For the…

Dr. Sunny Lau from Bishop University invited Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon and Dr. Mai Naji to conduct a workshop for high school teachers in Quebec. This workshop was part of the Entente Canada-Quebec project, designed to assist teachers in offering courses in French at this Anglophone college, in compliance with the newly enacted Law 14…

In October of 2024, our team member Ye Jia joined the collaboration project of international curriculum mapping with researchers from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Our well-established category system for organizing mathematics and science curricula laid the groundwork for a detailed comparison between the Ontario and Berlin school systems. This collaboration led to the collection and update of Berlin’s…

ABSTRACT This study addresses the challenges faced by newcomer students in the host country’s education system. It emphasizes the importance of creating learning communities around these learners. To achieve this goal, we assisted various stakeholders including parents and educators in transcending language differences by examining each other’s educational system. Our approach aimed to cultivate positive…

ABSTRACT In Canada, the substantial increase in English language learners has underscored the pressing need for educational resources that enable them to receive an education appropriate to their academic level while learning the school language. This issue carries significant implications for equitable access to quality education. In this study, we describe a novel multilingual digital…

ABSTRACT This special issue highlights research mainly conducted from 2020 to 2023 in Canada, France, Germany, the UK and Finland. Each of these studies presents the affordances and constraints of using multilingual digital tools to address the deficit orientation to the education of newcomer students that still exists in many contexts. This includes the underestimation…

ABSTRACT From the perspective of host country education system and, in light of a normative view of academic development, school systems have too often viewed the academic profiles of newcomer students as deficient despite a curriculum in Ontario (Canada) that mandates culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy. In this project, we view the mobility of these…

ABSTRACT In this paper, we report on data from 40 middle and secondary school mathematics teachers and teacher candidates as they begin to articulate the intersection of language-friendly pedagogy, mathematics teaching, and a multilingual technological tool by way of a two-hour introductory workshop. We use an Anthropological Theory of the Didactic which recognises that mathematics…

ABSTRACT This study addresses the challenges faced by newcomer students in the host country’s education system. It emphasizes the importance of creating learning communities around these learners. To achieve this goal, we assisted various stakeholders including parents and educators in transcending language differences by examining each other’s educational system. Our approach aimed to cultivate positive…