Catalan linguistic policy, presentation at ACCEPT PLURALISM Project, an international research for social cohesion and educational development in Europe (Funded by: the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme), in march 2011. Ref: http://accept-pluralism.eu/Home.aspx Round Table: http://accept-pluralism.eu/Documents/Events/LaunchEvents/2011-03-09-Spain/SpanishLaunchevent-presentationandminutes[1].pdf

1. Educational Policy: Towards Plurilingualism and Social Cohesion Further information: [email_address] @NewsNeus Maria Nieves Lorenzo Galés

3. It is very difficult “to stop seeing” what’s in our mind... ...Prejudice, Stereotype, Paradigm, Delusion...

4. An awareness-action model “ The best way to predict the future is to invent it” (Alan Kay, ICT pioneer) Ref: Intercultural approach . Aine Ferlong, Mercé Bernaus & Neus Lorenzo, 2009 A Awareness Prejudices and attitudes towards cultural diversity A Aim Building future society as a shared project A Action Plurilingualism versus Multilingualism: The Catalan LIC-Plan Assessment

5. Awareness

6. Attitudes

7. Aim

8. Looking for social cohesion through school success for everybody Not assimilation... ...but inclusion

9. Action

10. Learning, communicating, and sharing in formal, informal and non formal education

11. Assessment

12. Achievement and results: to build a plural society in equity

13. New emergent realities Source: http://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=aec&n=274&t=2009&x=7&y=9 23.778 148.525 93.831 106.746 121.622 133.000 34.797 51.926 74.491 19.793 16.921 9.868 Idescat, 2010 Foreign students 0.81% 13.65% 10.05% 7.65% 5.04% 9.03% 14.15% Students from immigrant families in Catalonia Cultural and religious diversity

14. Potential exclusion is increasing Ref: Tomás Calvo Buezas, “ Inmigración y multiculturalismo,¿gangrena d ela sociedad o enriquecimiento mutuo? ” pag. 44 en “Antropología en “Castilla y León e Iberoamérica: Emigración e integración”, Ángel B. Espina Barrio “ Source: “ Encuestas CEMIRA. Director: Tomás Calvo Buezas.” Percentage of students in agreement with this statement: “ If it depended on me, I would expel them from the country ”. Average Spanish opinion, State School survey: 1986-2008

15. Our Challenge: to accept diversity as collective richness

16. Educational success for every student whatever their origin, their capacity, their starting point their family expectations...

18. Building future

24. Comparison of PISA results: 2006-2009 But we are still under the European average! Reading & textual comprehension improves worldwide Maths impoves in Catalonia Science and comprehension of world remains static

25. Fuente: Encuestas CEMIRA. Director Tomás Calvo Buezas. https://bdigital.ufp.pt/dspace/bitstream/10284/1811/3/43-68.pdf Percentage of students in agreement with this statement: “ Immigrants from outside the EU, but legally established, should have the same rights as national citizens” Acceptance of equal rights

26. Our future challenges ...finding resources ? … collective efforts?

27. Educational Policy: Towards Plurilingualism and Social Cohesion Further information: [email_address] @NewsNeus Maria Nieves Lorenzo Galés Thank you!