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April 22, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Language-in-education policy in Aruba: Ideologies, classroom realities and linguistic justice in secondary schools

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BDBart van DonselaarVOVictoria Van OssEMEric Mijts

Key Points

  • To explore the ideologies behind Aruba's language-in-education policies and their impact on classrooms.
  • Analysis of three policy documents
  • Interviews with eleven teachers
  • Funding from a European research initiative
  • Identification of key ideologies influencing language-in-education policy.
  • Revealed classroom realities that contrast with policy intentions.
  • Highlights the need for inclusive practices to support plurilingual identities.

Abstract

This poster on language-in-education policies in Aruban secondary education was presented at the 11th Spring Research Conference on Multilingual Acquisition, hosted by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. It covers the first findings from a PhD-project on the ideologies underlying Aruban language-in-education policy. It focuses on three policy documents and eleven interviews with teachers. The project is funded by the project 'Pluridentities: Protecting and stimulating plurilingual identities in learners in Europe via inclusive policies and classroom practices,’ granted by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation pro­gramme (No. 101178914).

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Donselaar et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e8677e6e0dea528ddeb9a1https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19663943
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