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Van Der Wildt, Anouk; Van Avermaet, Piet; Van Houtte, Mieke – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
Mainstream teachers struggle with linguistic diversity, often leading to restricting multilingualism. Scientific research, however, recommends including pupils' home languages in school. Various qualitative studies have evaluated implementations in schools and indicated possibilities for improving teachers' attitudes towards multilingualism. This…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Regression (Statistics), Foreign Countries, Coaching (Performance)
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Van Der Wildt, Anouk; Van Avermaet, Piet; Van Houtte, Mieke – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
Societies have become super-diverse due to migration and globalization. Many mainstream classroom teachers feel managing the linguistic variety children bring to school is challenging. This often leads to restrictive language policies. Research on multilingualism has given us insight into the multilingual realities of pupils, which allows us to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Student School Relationship, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning
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Lauring, Jakob; Selmer, Jan – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: Post-secondary educational organizations are currently some of the most diverse settings to be found. However, few educational studies have dealt with staff diversity and hardly any has looked outside the USA. The purpose of this paper is to present a study of members of international university departments in Denmark. The authors set out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Ethnic Diversity