the focus lies on diversity in the past and in the present and allows teachers to reflect and critically examine different fields of tension in the intercultural dimension of the teaching profession there is a strong emphasis on democracy values and norm creation and how these topics could be taught in increasingly heterogeneous classrooms sodertorn universityndissi research has found that multilingualism in teacher education is lacking carlson despite the fact that many national reports have pointed to the importance of teachers language knowledge as an integral part of core content teaching skolinspektionen ooi skolverket oi in swedish teacher education student teachers study subject content and corresponding theory amnes och amnesdidaktiska studier in addition to educational core requirements