The Mutual Symbiosis Between Inclusive Bi-lingual Education and Multicultural Education

Abstract

In this article the authors postulate a mutual symbiosis between multicultural and inclusive bi-lingual education. Combining bi-lingual and multicultural education to create a symbiotic relationship can stimulate reform in schools and can promote inclusive educational systems, thereby keeping native languages and cultures alive for minority students and enhancing native English speakers’ language and cultural understandings.

Notes

We selected those dates because the Multicultural Perspectives Journal was published for the first time in 1993 and The Bilingual Research Journal in 1992.

A symbiont is one of the organisms (programs) that is engaged in the symbiotic relationship.

Specific information on teaching in a multicultural, inclusive, or antiracist classroom may be found in the work of Niemonen (2007) and Schugurensky (2002).