​Our proposal relates to challenge 6,change and social innovations. With this research, we will investigate, from a longitudinal perspective, the belief systems that future teachers have about multilingual education and study how these representations evolve through reflective inquiry and action. These future teacher students, using new technologies and with the support of teachers who are part of the research team, will build a bank of resources that will be available to schools with large migrant student populations.

The research team and the working team will hold regular focus group meetings with a group of teachers from five, pre-selected centres having significant migrant student populations. At these focus group meetings, the relevance, appropriateness and innovative aspects of the teaching and learning resources developed by the future teacher students, will be discussed. As well, the proposals arising from the European Commission will also be debated. These same teachers wll then review, appraise and pilot the student teacher-made resources within their classrooms. Upon piloting the resources, these teachers will then provide feedback to the investigators as well as to the future teacher students during their university classes. The objective is to establish synergies between student teachers (pre-service) and active teachers (in-service) through reflective practices arising from these encounters. The project will be evaluated externally by two internationally renowned professors.