Identifying space for mainstreaming multilingual pedagogies in European initial teacher education policies

Bergroth, Mari (author), Llompart, Júlia (author), Pepiot, Nathalie (author), van der Worp, Karin (author), Dražnik, Tjaša (author), Sierens, Sven (author)

This study sought to explore the ideological and implementational spaces for mainstreaming multilingual pedagogies (MPs) in initial teacher education (ITE) policies and curricula across the European Union. The concept of linguistically sensitive teaching (LST) was used as a lens to examine inclusive, equity-centred MPs in ITE. A multi-sited comparative case study was conducted to collect data in nine locations. As a result, a general trend of ideological spaces was observed for MPs in language-in-education policies at the European and (sub)national levels. However, this ideological space was not always implemented in ITE. As a second result, explicit mentions of MPs and LST were identified in the ITE curricula of seven sites, and in each of the nine cases, a potential space for implementation was observed. As a third result we found that the greatest potential for opening implementational spaces for MPs lies in courses that aim to develop general pedagogical and sociolinguistic knowledge as well as professional beliefs in future teachers. In conclusion, we contend that the linguistic ecology and the organisational structure of education systems (decentralisation) are factors that help explain the successful mainstreaming of MPs in ITE institutions.

• Language: English
• Keywords: teacher education, linguistics, initial teacher education, multilingual pedagogies, linguistically sensitive teaching, ideological spaces, implementational spaces, European Union
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 801–821
• Numbering: Vol. 21, iss. 5
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-141455
• UDC: 37.011.3-051:81
• ISSN on article: 1474-9041
• DOI: 10.1177/14749041211012500
• COBISS.SI-ID: 62396931
• Publication date in RUL: 29.09.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: European educational research journal
• Shortened title: EERJ
• Publisher: SAGE, European Educational Research Association
• ISSN: 1474-9041
• COBISS.SI-ID: 7918921

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: izobraževanje učiteljev, etika, poučevanje, učitelj začetnik

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: ERASMUS+, Key Action 3 – Support for Policy Reform – Policy Experimentations
• Project number: 606695-EPP-1-2018-2-FI-EPPKA3-PI-POLICY
• Name: Linguistically Sensitive Teaching in All Classrooms
• Acronym: LISTIAC