VIeL
Diversity in the Classroom: Developing an Intervention to Promote Diversity Beliefs Among Pre-Service Teachers
Funded by the Ideas and Venture Fund
Duration: 15.04.2025 – 31.08.2026
Project description
Effectively addressing diversity in schools is essential to ensuring that differences do not translate into inequalities, such as biases in performance assessments. In this context, positive diversity beliefs among teachers play a key role. Diversity-sensitive teaching involves recognizing and integrating the wide range of student characteristics into lesson planning and delivery. The project aims to investigate how positive diversity beliefs can be fostered among pre-service teachers. In particular, the study examines the relationship between diversity beliefs and stereotypes related to gender and multilingualism. The aim is to determine whether promoting diversity beliefs among pre-service teachers is also associated with a reduction in stereotypes. In this way, the project seeks to contribute to the creation of learning environments that better meet the individual potentials and needs of students.
To this end, an experimental study will be conducted with pre-service teachers, in which an intervention will be developed and tested. The analysis will focus on whether the intervention actually leads to a change in diversity beliefs and whether related stereotypes can be reduced as a result.
Team
Dr. Francesca Siems-Muntoni (contact person)
Marielle Wittlich (student assistant)