ABSTRACT
Mi Lenga is an innovative interdisciplinary program focusing on multilingualism in schools and targeted at master’s students in a five-year Master of Education program for lower and upper secondary school at the University of Oslo. The Mi Lenga program brings together student teachers in the final stages of the five-year integrated teacher education program and provides an interdisciplinary forum for focused and joint investigation of issues of multilingualism that have received very little attention in their teacher education thus far. This chapter draws on research in (student) teacher beliefs and aims to bring forward student teachers’ voices through analysis of interviews, students’ written reflective memos, and student dissemination products such as podcasts and blog posts. Findings indicate that the students enrolled in the Mi Lenga program develop a complex and situated understanding of the phenomenon of multilingualism related to their specific school subject and to Norwegian school. The program also serves as an introduction to a larger practice and research community which is important for their agency.
