‘We Learn Together’—Translanguaging within a Holistic Approach towards Multilingualism in Education

Abstract

Within two multilingual education projects in the north of the Netherlands a holistic model for multilingualism in education is being tested. This is done through design-based interventions in which in-and pre-service teachers, teacher trainers and researchers co-develop and evaluate multilingual activities for different school types. Results show that through experimenting in a safe environment teachers gradually embraced their pupils' multilingualism. This contradicts earlier findings on teachers strongly favouring monolingual instruction and viewing migrant languages as a deficit. Keywords Translanguaging · Holistic approach · Multilingual education · Design-based research © The Author(s) 2020 J. A. Panagiotopoulou et al. (eds.), Inclusion, Education and Translanguaging, Inklusion und Bildung in Migrationsgesellschaften, https://doi.