Critical and Creative Engagements with Diversity in Nordic Education

Vander Tavares; Thor-André Skrefsrud

doi:10.5771/9781666925869

Summary

Teacher education in the Nordic European context continues to change rapidly in response to diversity. However, this context tends to receive less attention globally, despite being a part of the interconnected effort to prepare teachers and students for an increasingly complex and uncertain future. Against this backdrop, this volume presents timely research that identifies and critically explores some of the challenges and opportunities which researchers, educators, and teacher educators may encounter while working in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts of education in Nordic Europe. In doing so, this volume aims to contribute to the broader conversations about diversity and education on an international level, particularly those focused on how to improve and enhance teacher education through more inclusive, responsive, and social justice-oriented practices. Critical and Creative Engagements with Diversity in Nordic Education offers empirical, conceptual, and theoretical contributions on topics such as religion, gender and sex, language, culture, nationality, race, and ethnicity that reflect the experiences, concerns, and needs of both teachers and students from primary to higher and teacher education. By recognizing, promoting, and understanding the importance of diversity in the classroom, educators can contribute to the achievement of academic success of every student.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2585-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2586-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 368
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Introduction No access
1. Chapter 1: “The More We Know, The More We Feel What We Know Is Limited”: Finnish Student Teachers Engaging with Chinese Students’ Ideas about Culture, Language, and Interculturality No access
2. Chapter 2: “We have Three Common Enemies”: Student Teachers’ Perspectives on Existing Prejudice in Danish Multicultural Schools No access
3. Chapter 3: Experiential Education, Museums, and Student Teachers’ Intercultural Learning: Reflections on the Scandinavian Romani Exhibition No access
4. Chapter 4: Finnish Teacher-students’ Mindsets and Intercultural Competences No access
5. Chapter 5: Teacher Education for Inclusion: Preparing Student Teachers at the School of Education in Iceland to Work in Inclusive Multicultural Classrooms No access
1. Chapter 6: Finnish Teachers’ Perspectives on Creating Multilingual Learning Opportunities in Diverse Classrooms No access
2. Chapter 7: How Do Teachers of Plurilingual Learner’s Mother Tongue (PLMT) Implement Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy? No access
1. Chapter 8: Critical Approaches to Religious Diversity in Education: What Skills Do Future Teachers Need? No access
2. Chapter 9: Reconceptualizing Non-Confessional Religious Education in Norway from a Freirean Perspective No access
1. Chapter 10: Diversity and Inclusion in Physical Education: Kinesiocultural Exploration as Anti-Oppressive Teaching No access
2. Chapter 11: Esports: The New “White Boys” Club? Problematizing the Norms Limiting Diversity and Inclusion in an Educational Gaming Context No access
3. Chapter 12: Teaching Toward Transformation: Promoting Multicultural Pedagogy in Iceland through Reflective Participation No access
4. Chapter 13: Opportunities and Challenges in Implementing Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Practices in Preschools in Iceland No access
1. Chapter 14: Locating Power: Polish Parents’ Encounter with Norwegian Education No access
2. Chapter 15: Negotiating Knowledge of Sexual and Gender Diversity: A Case Study with Migrant Students in a Swedish Language Course No access
3. Chapter 16: Countering Narratives of Identity and Belonging: Multicultural School Events from a Student Perspective No access
4. Chapter 17: The Roles of Migrant Parents in High School as Constructed by Teachers and Students: A “Double-Edged Sword” No access
Index No access Pages 357 - 360
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 361 - 368