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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Collaborating with multilingual caregivers
In March, researcher Erin Gail MacDonald collaborated with Lotte van der Goot and Marjon Smits to write a blog about collaborating with multilingual caregivers. Lotte and Marjon work for CPS, and we so appreciate that they bring both practical insights from the field and theoretical knowledge to our collaboration. You can find the blog here:…
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School language policies: Unspoken rules or guiding principles?
A school language policy is a set of rules and guidelines directed at school staff and students on how to use different languages at school. In this blog post, we reflect on interviews with teachers and students on their schools’ language policies, held by three Master’s students from our research groups in Sweden and the…
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Why are mother languages important in education?
On International Mother Language Day (UNESCO), we’ve asked some of our Multi-STEM team members a simple question: Why are mother languages important in education? In this blog post you can read their answers.
