[Edling] New volume on teacher education for working in linguistically diverse classrooms: Nordic perspectives

[Anne Reath Warren via Edling]

Dear Francis

Hope you are well. Here is some information about a new edited volume from the Nordic context, addressing and analysing how teacher education in five Nordic countries prepares teachers for working in linguistically diverse classrooms. Spoiler - there is still much work to be done!

Here is the blurb from Language Science Press and a link to this open access volume. Teacher education for working in linguistically diverse classrooms: Nordic perspectives | Language Science Press<https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/482>



Teacher education for working in linguistically diverse classrooms: Nordic perspectives
Anne Reath Warren (ed), Jonas Yassin Iversen (ed), Boglárka Straszer (ed)
Synopsis

This volume presents studies on aspects of teacher education that prepare teachers for working in linguistically diverse classrooms and schools in five Nordic countries; Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This twin focus (teacher education in linguistically diverse contexts; and Nordic perspectives) makes the volume unique in its field, and contributes to international discussions on how teacher education can prepare preservice and in-service teachers for working with linguistically diverse student groups.

The volume includes contributions on:

  *   Teacher education policies
  *   Teacher educators' perspectives on teacher education
  *   Pre-service teacher perspectives on teacher education.

The ways in which teacher education prepares educators for working with newcomers and multilingual students has attracted considerable attention in recent years. This reflects the increasingly linguistically diverse nature of classrooms that teachers around the world meet, that is in turn, a direct result of intensified globalisation and transnational migration. Clearly, teacher education is crucial for successful implementation of educational provisions for multilingual students. Teacher knowledge, gained partly through teacher education, plays a central role in creating educational environments where multilingual students can thrive.

This volume focuses specifically on teacher education in a Nordic context, a region traditionally associated with progressive approaches in education based on principles of inclusivity, social justice and equal opportunity. In the twenty-first century, most Nordic countries have experienced increasing levels of migration. While neither multilingualism nor transnational migration are new phenomena in the region, geographical and social factors, as well as the ways humans communicate have helped make multilingualism more visible in the twenty-first century. Schools in the Nordic countries have had to act quickly and think flexibly to meet the needs of an increasingly linguistically and culturally heterogenous group of students. The ability of the Nordic countries to provide these students with "inclusive, equal education and a fair chance to start a new life" constitutes in some ways the ultimate test of the "Nordic model" of education. Investigating how this challenge is addressed in different forms of teacher education is the topic to which this volume turns its attention.

Chapters

  *   Setting the scene
Teacher education for linguistically diverse classrooms in the Nordic region
Anne Reath Warren, Jonas Yassin Iversen, Boglárka Straszer
Chapter 1<https://zenodo.org/records/15280893/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-1.pdf?download=1>

  *   Working with multilingual students in Iceland
Exploring educational experiences of newly graduated teachers
Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir, Edda Óskarsdóttir
Chapter 2<https://zenodo.org/records/15280895/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-2.pdf?download=1>

  *   Study guidance in the mother tongue
Legitimate knowledge and the emergence of a profession in Swedish schools
Jenny Rosén, Åsa Wedin
Chapter 3<https://zenodo.org/records/15280897/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-3.pdf?download=1>

  *   Preparing pre- and in-service teachers in Iceland to work in multilingual classrooms
Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir, Jónína Vala Kristinsdóttir, Gunnhildur Óskarsdóttir, Samúel Lefever
Chapter 4<https://zenodo.org/records/15280899/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-4.pdf?download=1>

  *   Multilingualism in Danish pre-service teachers' writing assignments
Between theory and practice
Winnie Østergaard, Anna-Vera Meidell Sigsgaard, Thomas Roed Heiden, Lone Wulff, Christine Worm
Chapter 5<https://zenodo.org/records/15280901/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-5.pdf?download=1>

  *   Norwegian pre-service teachers' orientations, knowledge and skills regarding multilingualism
Jonas Yassin Iversen, Wenche Elisabeth Thomassen, Sandra Fylkeses
Chapter 6<https://zenodo.org/records/15280903/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-6.pdf?download=1>

  *   "You have to choose your words wisely"
Finnish pre-service teachers' understandings of, and support for, multilingual students' academic language development
Jenni Alisaari, Leena Maria Heikkola, Raisa Harju-Autti
Chapter 7<https://zenodo.org/records/15280905/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-7.pdf?download=1>

  *   Mapping pre-service subject teachers' preparedness for linguistically diverse classrooms in Finland
Leena Maria Heikkola, Elisa Repo, Niina Kekki
Chapter 8<https://zenodo.org/records/15280907/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-8.pdf?download=1>

  *   Changing teachers' monolingual habitus
Ingrid Piller
Chapter 9<https://zenodo.org/records/15280909/files/482-ReathWarren-2025-9.pdf?download=1>









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