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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More than happy coincidences: Teaching multilingual children through science words across languages
In this post, we present science cognates, or science words that sound or look similar across languages. We explain why science cognates are more than happy coincidences: They can be used in diverse ways to teach science to multilingual children.
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Language Support in Context-Rich Math Lessons
Providing language support and using the home language can make contextual math more accessible.
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Upcoming school group visit to the museum? Consider these tips on a quick school-museum communication to make the most out of it!
Are you a teacher taking your school group on a museum visit soon? Or are you actually on the ‘other side’ – a museum educator or volunteer expecting to welcome the school group at the museum? In this blogpost, we share some tips on what you can share with each other beforehand to make the…
