Journal for Educational Research Online (JERO): Issue The development of professional role perceptions among multilingual teacher training students with a migration Background

Multilingual student teachers are confronted with different attributions during their school and university studies. On the one hand, they have gone through their own school years as members of the group of second language learners, which is categorized as problematic by the majority society; on the other hand, expectations that focus on positive effects for multilingual students are attributed. How does the role image of the students concerned develop in this situation? In six narrative interviews students tell their story. Central aspects of the role image are experiences of Othering and racism, but also of personal success and access to students. The university plays an important role here in breaking down learned otherness, but at the same time it proves to be all the more dramatic when negative attributions happen here again.

Keywords
migration background, students in teacher training, role image, Othering