Nina Hauge Jensen

How can schools accommodate students with Danish as a second language, both newcomers and those who have grown up in Denmark

With over 20 years of teaching student teachers, collaborating with municipalities, providing further education for teachers, and researching a sensitive topic with significant political attention, I dare to offer a perspective on what makes it so difficult to accommodate students with Danish as a second language, and provide a research-based foundation for what it requires of schools to accommodate everyone, including those with Danish as a second language.

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The students get

Knowledge about:

• How somewhat nerdy language subjects can be used in the outside world
• How to collaborate with municipalities and ministries
• Where research and political opinions do not always align
• How the subject of Danish as a second language appears in teacher education (which changes approximately every 10 years)