Engaging with linguistic diversity. A study of educational inclusion in an Irish Primary School by David Little and Déirdre Kirwan, London, Bloomsbury, 2019

[Excerpt] When I first came across Engaging with Linguistic Diversity. A Study of Educational Inclusion in an Irish Primary School, by David Little and Déirdre Kirwan (Bloomsbury, 2019), I already knew that it was about a very successful experience of plurilingual education since I had read Cummings’s (Citation2019) highly praising reference to the approach, which is also voiced in his foreword to this edition. Yet, what I have found in the book has far exceeded my best expectations. Below, I explain why as I tour the introductory section and the six chapters structuring the book, finishing it with a personal commentary.[...]This work was funded by CIEd – Research Centre on Education, Institute of Education, University of Minho, projects UIDB/01661/2020 and UIDP/01661/2020, through national funds of FCT/MCTES-PT