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Developing Minority Communities against the Background of the Necessary Dream of Returning to the Homeland

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The Bilingual and Bicultural Education Program of the Brussels Regional Integration Centre Foyer originated in the 1977 European Commission Directive on the education of children of migrant workers. The first project started in 1981 in one school where they offered bicultural education to a group of seven Italian children.

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  1. Department of Political Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium

    Paul De Roo

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  2. University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland

    Ewa Kurantowicz

  3. University of Seville, Spain

    Emilio Lucio-Villegas

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Roo, P.D. (2016). Developing Minority Communities against the Background of the Necessary Dream of Returning to the Homeland. In: Evans, R., Kurantowicz, E., Lucio-Villegas, E. (eds) Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities. Research on the Education and Learning of Adults. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-358-2_10

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