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Mission and vision

To become a leader in multilingual education and literacies through:

  • Innovative research into multilingual education and literacies
  • Empowering schooling communities and families
  • Promoting awareness of the value of multilingual education

Approach

HuMEL has a multi-faceted approach that includes:

  • High-quality research
  • Community and stakeholder empowerment
  • Advocating for the value of multilingualism in the 21st Century
  • Tutorial development

Strategic objectives

Research?
  • Conducts research into literacy interfaces in a range of languages
  • Enhances critical scholarship regarding the efficacy of translanguaging
  • Accelerates the development of the next generation of scholars
Policy-Making and Advocacy?
  • Advocating for inclusive literacy practices
  • Promoting multilingual policies and planning initiatives
  • Designing edumetric assessment tools for literacy development in African languages and English
  • Prepares pre- and in-service teachers to work in multilingual contexts

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