CONTENT BASED TEACHING IN BELGIUM SOFIE JONCKHEERE sofie.jonckheere@foyer.be Foyer Multilingual Education Team Werkhuizenstraat 25 1080 Brussels Belgium www.foyer.be
BELGIUM: 3 REGIONS, 3 COMMUNITIES The Netherlands Germany France Luxembourg Flanders (Flemish community) Wallonia (French community) Brussels (Flemish & French) 2 German communtiy
FOYER CONTEXT FOUNDED IN 1969 CULTURAL DIVERSITY: MIGRATION & INTEGRATION BRUSSELS REGION – FLEMISH COMMUNITY POPULATION: 1/3 = ‘FOREIGN’ FLEMISH EDUCATION: ONLY 1/10 IS FROM A DUTCH SPEAKING FAMILY POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT, ILLEGALITY MOLENBEEK
FOYER PROJECTS YOUTH CENTRE WOMEN CENTRE TRAINING CENTRE DISTRICT WORKSHOP EDUCATION SERVICE SOCIAL SERVICE LEGAL SERVICE INTERCULTURAL MEDIATION SERVICE NEWCOMERS CHILD CARE ROMA, GYPSIES, DWELLERS SPORT CLUB SOCIAL COHESION EMPLOYMENT
EDUCATION SERVICE FOUNDED IN 1981 ORIGINAL AIM: ORGANISING MULTICULTURAL AND MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION EXPANSION: RAISING AND EDUCATING IN A MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT THEMES: BICULTURAL MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION MULTILINGUAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION LANGUAGE AWARENESS LANGUAGEPORTFOLIO CITIZENSHIP INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION NEWCOMERS COMMUNICATION WITH IMMIGRANT PARENTS
EDUCATION SERVICE: OVERVIEW TOPIC ACTIVITY TARGET CYCLE BILINGUAL EDUCATION BILINGUAL DEVELOPMENT & UPBRINGING LANGUAGE AWARENESS LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO INTERCULTURAL & CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN METHODS & MATERIALS TRAINING & SUPPORT SPECIAL ACTIVITIES SCHOOLS / TEACHERS INSPECTORS, ADVISORS CHILDREN PARENTS TODDLER SCHOOL PRIMARY SECONDARY HIGHER
PROJECT: EDUCATION IN NATIVE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE = EDUCATIONAL MODEL PROVIDING STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION OF THE NATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE CURRICULUM ORGANIZED BY FOYER AS A PROJECT SUBSIDIZED BY THE FLEMISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IN 6 DUTCH SPEAKING PRIMARY SCHOOLS (KINDERGARTEN TO YEAR 6) AT THE MOMENT WITH 2 TURKISH, 2 SPANISH AND 2 ITALIAN PROJECTS
AIMS SUSTAINING A WELL-BALANCED PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT ATTAINING ACTIVE AND FUNCTIONAL PLURILINGUALISM IMPROVING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES AND INTEGRATION REALISING A BETTER FLOW OF PUPILS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN TOWARDS SECUNDARY EDUCATION
MODEL
DISTRIBUTION OVER THE TYPES OF EDUCATION
SCHOOL CAREER OF THE BICULTURAL STUDENTS 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 04-05 05-06 % 2de tot 7de jaar ASO 44,0 50,0 48,5 50,4 37,9 39,5 40,0 39,0 41,2 50,96 47,97 TSO 20,0 14,0 16,0 15,4 25,5 18,6 16,3 17,5 18,27 18,45 BSO 36,0 35,5 34,2 36,55 40,3 38,2 40,7 38,6 28,25 32,04 KSO - 0,6 1,8 2,4 0,96 0,97 Deel 1,6 0,9 Distribution of the bicultural students over the different types of education form year 2 to year 7