Conflict resolution in the context of Early Childhood Bilingual Education: towards a multicultural development

• Main Authors: Daniele Gazzotti, Fernanda Liberali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2014-05-01
• Series: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
• Subjects: multiculturalismo; intervenção colaborativa; resolução de conflito
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982014000200005&lng=en&tlng=en

This article discusses how young children learn to deal with conflicts from a multicultural standpoint. The present work is based on the view that, in a world of multiple demands and perspectives, children learn to deal with life in a variety of ways that will enable them to choose who they will become. The main underlying concepts of this article include: multiculturalism, linked to multilingualism and multimodality, as well as collaborative intervention for the creation of zones of proximal development and children's oral argumentation. The data consists of a multimodally transcribed episode of a snack time situation among two-year-old children, showing the multicultural development of kids in their way of dealing with conflict resolution.