Work with diversity in sustainable education

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Wednesday V)

Group Submission Type: Refereed Round-Table Session

Proposal

Through a nationwide six-year development project in the educational sector, the Norwegian educational authorities’ aimed to increase the competence among educators at all levels in the education system in order to enhance minorities’ school performance and decrease their dropout rate in senior high school. The results from the national project are mixed, in line with our own research to be presented at CIES2019. We welcome a critical discussion of our empirical findings and on what constitutes successful practices other places in the world in order to address the possibility of achieving an increasingly inclusive and sustainable education for all.

Sub Unit

• General Pool

Individual Presentations

• Teacher perceptions and practices concerning multilingualism - Christian Carlsen, University of South-Eastern Norway; Tony Burner, University of South-Eastern Norway

• Pre-service teachers’ competence in making use of diversity as pedagogical asset - Heidi Biseth, University of South-Eastern Norway; Jocelyn von Hof, University of South-Eastern Norway

• Inclusion in refugee classes - Ingrid Reite Christensen, University of South-Eastern Norway

• Inclusion in kindergartens - Anne Grethe Sønsthagen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Discussant

• Heidi Biseth, Hiroshima University