2016
Leykam, Graz
Elgrid Messner, Daniela Worek, Mojca Peček (Eds.)
Increased cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms throughout Europe is creating a great challenge for teachers, resulting in a profound need to adequately prepare teachers and other experts to teach in multilingual and multicultural settings.
The ENTEP book at hand can be considered as a response to the challenges
connected to increased cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms. It
represents a series of significant contributions by several European experts
who are either official ENTEP members or who dedicate their expertise to
ENTEP with themes deriving from various important aspects of this topic.
The recommendations and elaborations herein on theory and practice within
the chosen topic intend to stimulate, inspire and enrich further discussion
and professional discourse among policy makers, teachers, teacher edu-
cators, and researchers in teacher education institutions, student teachers
and other stakeholders in the field, as well as the wider school community.
They address substantial issues to be pursued in European teacher edu-
cation and in particular highlight the need to further facilitate and intensify
EU-wide research and support for quality improvement of teachers’ work
in the presented thematic examples. It should also promote new concepts
and approaches for teaching with engaged political strategic interventions
in the various current challenges in European member states.
2016
Leykam, Graz
Elgrid Messner, Daniela Worek, Mojca Peček (Eds.)