by Alyssa Shroyer | Editor: Jessica Nicholas (PhD candidate in French) Alyssa Shroyer is a Senior in Early Childhood Education. In the ‘Language and Minorities in Europe’ (418) EUC survey class, she focused on bilingual education in the Autonomous Territories of Spain that possess political power to enact their own measures on local languages and cultures. In this blog entry, she asks whether local pride should take precedence over global utility when opting for types of bilingual education. I recently read an article by Julie Kaminski regarding two schools in northern Barcelona , the Oriol Martorell School and Colonia Guell that have undergone change in the past decade, incorporating the teaching of Catalan as the primary language of their curriculum. Spanish is minimally taught for all ages. English is taught as a second foreign language in early elementary school, only 3 hours per week. Italian is also a part of the curriculum as “it goes well with music.”...