Multi-STEM is a research project that aims to promote the participation of multilingual children in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
Subprojects
Children with a migration background can encounter obstacles in Dutch education.
Developing multilingual strategies for STEM education
Multi-STEM wants to ensure that multilingual children feel seen and heard, and that they can fully participate in education.
Multilingual children possess knowledge and skills in their home language that are lost in a monolingual Dutch environment.
That’s why Multi-STEM is developing an approach where both Dutch and home languages can be used.
Allowing a child to use all of their languages not only improves school performance, but also ensures that the child feels seen and involved.
Recent Blog Posts
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Multilingualism and Children’s Book Week
Children’s Book Week is an opportunity to appreciate multilingualism, leverage the knowledge of parents, and promote reading books in any language.
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The value of a multilingual approach: a teacher’s perspective
Teachers Violet and Bart have developed multilingual routines in their newcomers classroom. Working in and with languages that they do not speak themselves has been challenging, but also very successful in many ways. Over the two years that Violet worked with us, she answered the following question on various occasions: Could you tell us about…
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The “Golden Weeks”—a great time to make space for multilingualism
The so called “Golden Weeks” are upon us—the first few weeks of the school year, where educators have the chance to set expectations and lay a stellar foundation for the coming year. This is an important time for teachers and school support staff, but also for students and caregivers: it’s a clean slate of sorts,…
