In this opening commentary we highlight the tension surrounding the emergence and development of bilingual education programs in mainland China, which has attracted much attention in research. Scholars have contradictory views about efforts aimed at promoting and sustaining bilingualism/multilingualism through...
First, the bilingual education programs for ethnic minority students were part of a government-led educational campaign at the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, intended to provide education opportunities for ethnic minority groups (for a typology of bilingual education for Chi...
The controversies of its application surpass the frames of education systems, while discussions of the inclusion of minorities and historically marginalized groups in the institutions of the western society will, most probably, be held intensively in the future, too, and will be equally tainted by ...