This article explores how the development of mother-tongue instruction (MTI) policies in the Danish welfare state have created varying notions of difference and sameness in the schooling of migrant students and how they experience these notions locally in practice. Based on an analysis of MTI's policy history and oral history interviews with…

Examines the common division in pedagogical discourse of the other as either (1) male or female individual or (2) the world beyond the subject. Proposes an approach that examines both forms of otherness in relation to each other. Addresses the significance for pedagogical theory and practice. (CMK)