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Navigating Bilingual Education in Democratic Settings

2025· book-chapter· en· W4414993958 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Suheyla Demirkol Orak

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSecond Language Learning and Teaching
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMultilingualismDemocracyCitizenshipBilingual educationIdentity (music)IdeologyLanguage policyQualitative researchCultural assimilation

Abstract

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This chapter critically explores bilingual and multilingual education policies in democratic societies through the lens of linguistic human rights, identity, and social justice. Drawing on Ruiz's (1984) framework of language as a right, problem, and resource, it examines how language ideologies embedded in policy and pedagogy can either reinforce systemic inequalities or foster inclusion. Using qualitative methods—including thematic analysis, document review, and comparative case studies from Canada, Spain, South Africa, and New Zealand—the chapter highlights both empowering and assimilationist models of bilingual education. It argues for a shift toward policies that value multilingualism as a societal asset, promote equity, and support identity formation. The study advocates educational reforms that ensure full participation of linguistically diverse learners in democratic contexts.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.083

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0160.014
Scholarly communication0.0110.008
Open science0.0010.013
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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