For those interested in the promotion of mother tongue education here is a
conference announcement of the 3rd ADALEST conference which will be held in
Malawi from 30 August until 03 September 2004, and which will focus on
multilingual education issues also within the Malawian context.

From the web site:
http://www.adalest.com/13801.html

*Making Multilingual Education a Reality for All*

"Building upon the resolutions and proceedings of the preceding conferences,
and linking in with the themes of the forthcoming 5th National Language
Symposium, the conference runs for a total of 5 days, thus addressing issues
related to multilingual education with both (i) a national Malawian and (ii)
a wider international perspective, embedded into a mutual thematic
framework. The conference theme encompasses all previous deliberations of
the ADALEST conferences, and focuses the thematic framework constructively
upon the way ahead:

*Making Multilingual Education a Reality for All*

Operationalizing Good Intentions

Further to this theme, four sub-themes have been formulated as follows:

(1) Preparing the ground: Policy making and policy implementation

(2) Convincing the (yet) unconvinced: Collecting and presenting facts and
figures

(3) Getting support: Partners in multilingual education

(4) Putting planning into practice: Multilingual education in action

In order to facilitate the exchange between national and international
delegates, the sub-themes remain the same for the Malawian National Language
Symposium. Such design makes it possible to run both national and
international deliberations simultaneously, thus enabling participants to
switch between ADALEST conference and National Language Symposium according
to interest at any time."

The conference convenor (for all information) is:

Dr. Joachim Friedrich Pfaffe M.A.
Entwicklungspolitischer Gutachter
Education and Development Consultant
Postfach 51 04 24, D-13364 Berlin, Germany
Phone +49-30-91742380, Fax +49-30-91742381, Mobile: +49-172-6067976
email: [email protected]