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Sympoasium 'Minority Languages in Education', EERA/ECER 2026, Tampere University (FI)

Agenda

Conference

At the ECER conference of the European Educational Research Association (EERA), researchers from Fryslân are organising a symposium. Suzanne Dekker and Ydwine Scarse are involved in this on behalf of the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning.

This year's theme of the Finnish European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) is "Knowing and Acting: The changing conditions and potentials of education research". It is organised from 17-21 August by the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and the Tampere University.

The symposium ‘Minority Languages in Education: Translating Policy, Identity, and Community Engagement into Classroom Practice’ forms part of the conference programme and is organised by our former colleague and current lecturer at NHL Stenden, Mirjam Günther-van der Meij. A number of research papers will be presented at the symposium.

Presentations
 

1. Mirjam Günther-van der Meij (NHL Stenden), Suzanne Dekker (Mercator), Ydwine Scarse (Mercator), Simon Halink (Fryske Akademy), Albert Walsweer (NHL Stenden)

2. Fardau Visser (NHL Stenden) & Nynke-Anna Varkevisser (NHL Stenden)

3. Stefanie Cajka (University of Vienna), Katharina Strasser (University of Vienna), Eva Vetter (University of Vienna)

4. Sophie Rädel (Serbski Institute/Sorbisches Institut)

Chair: Suzanne Dekker
Discussant: Jonas Yassin Iversen (Norway)

 

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