Bethanne Paulsrud

Biography

BethAnne Paulsrud Postdoctoral Fellow, Works at The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism. MINTED is a three-year collaboration (2015-2017) between the Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, and the Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki. The focus of the project is on multilingual and intercultural education in teacher training and compulsory schooling in Sweden and Finland. The investigation includes a study of policy documents, teacher education programmes, and classroom practices in Year 6 of primary school, with an aim to understand how primary school teachers are prepared for working with pupils with diverse backgrounds (i.e., language, ethnicity, genus, social class, and religion). The study explores how current teacher training programmes may resist social inequality and instead create possibilities for social justice. The project plan includes an analysis of policy documents (e.g., national curricula and teacher training syllabi) as well as field work (e.g., interviews and observations), both at universities offering teacher education and in primary school classrooms.

Research Interest

Multilingual