Physical Learning Environment

The guide is intended primarily for educational policymakers and key educational stakeholders at all levels of decision-making, including national and subnational levels. Secondary users of the guidance include school administrators, teachers and educators, as well as the entire education community. The first section of the guide analyses multilingualism and multilingual education (MLE) and the use of MLE principles in various contexts to support the SDGs. This section highlights, with supporting evidence, the cognitive, social and economic benefits of multilingual education.

The Voices into Action (VIA) activity examined how to meaningfully involve the voices of learners and their families in educational decision-making processes. It aimed to:

• establish the background and rationale for the widely recognised need to involve learner and family voices in decision-making;
• identify how policy-makers and other stakeholders might meet this need in practice, in different countries and different contexts.

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