Today, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research published my article titled Sustaining the Ethos of Togetherness in Multicultural Schools in Denmark: Student teachers’ reflections and experiences.

The data were derived from fourteen individual interviews with Danish student teachers who were in the final year of their educational journey through teacher education at the time of the study.

Utilising a twofold theoretical framework that is underpinned by critical multiculturalism and complemented by scholarship on the concept of togetherness [da. fællesskab], the article aims to answer two research questions:

• What are the student teachers’ reflections on the concept of togetherness within Danish compulsory schools’ multicultural landscape?
• How do the student teachers envision employing this notion to establish and sustain empowering learning environments for all pupils, regardless of their cultural or linguistic backgrounds?

The findings indicate that, on the one hand, the participants attached importance to establishing and sustaining the ethos of togetherness in their future classrooms, whilst on the other, they reported a deficiency in the practical knowledge required to actualise togetherness in contemporary multicultural educational settings.

The article is published open access.

It requires a greater effort to build a sense of togetherness … that is, to give the pupils the opportunity … to give the pupils the feeling that they are indispensable to the community. But I don’t know how to do it … no, I actually don’t…

David, pseudonym.