Course syllabus - Didactic Perspectives on Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
Scope
7.5 credits
Course code
OAU331
Valid from
Autumn semester 2026
Education level
Second cycle
Progressive Specialisation
A1N (Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Main area(s)
Didactics
Organisation
Department of Educational Sciences and Arts
Ratified
2023-12-12
Revised
2025-11-03
Literature lists
Course literature is preliminary up to 8 weeks before course start. Course literature can be valid over several semesters.
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Books
Stärk språket, stärk lärandet: språk- och kunskapsutvecklande arbetssätt för och med andraspråkselever i klassrummet
ISBN: 9789144128948
Mångfaldens förskola: flerspråkighet, omsorg och undervisning
ISBN: 9789144133263
Articles
Language beyond flags: teachers misunderstanding of translanguaging in preschools. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(10), 38353848.
Disciplinary language A Question of Content, Voices and Structures in Content-area Texts. I: HumaNetten Nummer 45 Hösten 2020. S. 185212.
Förortsförankrat tal ett inifrån- och ett utifrånperspektiv. I: Språk och stil NF 30, 2020. Uppsala. S. 166200.
URL: http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1533907/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Translanguaging in Sweden: A critical review from an international perspective. System, 121, 1-23
'English or Swedish please, no Dari!' - (trans)languaging and language policing in upper secondary schools language introduction programme in Sweden. Classroom discourse 10 (3-4), 347-368.
Teachers beliefs about multilingualism and a multilingual pedagogical approach. International Journal of Multilingualism 13 (1), 1-18.
Viewpoints about educational language policies: multilingualism in Sweden and Switzerland
S. 16-20 + 32-51
ISBN: 9789178770762
URL: Online
Teaching for a monolingual school? (In)visibility of multilingual perspectives in Swedish teacher education, Education Inquiry, 13:3, 321-337.
Web Addresses
Språklagen i praktiken: En vägledning från Språkrådet
URL: DiVA
Läroplan för förskolan: Lpfö 18
https://www.skolverket.se/getFile?file=4001
ISBN: 9789138327364
Läroplan för grundskolan, förskoleklassen och fritidshemmet, LGR22.
Läroplan för gymnasieskolan, LGY11. (Reviderad)
Other Materials
Artiklar tillkommer enl. Studiehandledningen.
Examination
INL1, Assignment, 5 credits, individual written assignment concerning learning outcomes 1-4, grades Fail (U), Pass (G) or Pass with distinction (VG).
SEM1, Seminar, 2.5 credits, written and oral participation during seminar concerning learning outcomes 1-4, grades Fail (U) or Pass (G).
A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding disability study support, can request adaptions for the examination. It is the examiner who takes decisions on any adaptions, based on the certificate and other conditions.
Grade
Three-grade scale
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