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Coming Soon: School internships in Namibia

2023-05-02

It sounds a bit like the dream version of a student's life and yet it is soon to become reality. At the beginning of 2024, three prospective primary school teachers currently in the master's programme at the University of Bremen will be able to do their practical semester in Namibia. There they will gain teaching experience at a primary school in the capital Windhoek through the accompanying study programme at the University of Namibia’s (UNAM) School of Education. 

Such study-practice placements are a key component of the DAAD project International Teacher Training: Mainstreaming Diversity and Inclusion. Kirsten Beta, project coordinator and staff member at the International Office, recently travelled to Windhoek to coordinate the pilot’s programme’s framework conditions at UNAM, the participating schools and Namibia’s Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

 

'International Teacher Training: Mainstreaming Diversity and Inclusion' begins

2023-02-20

The beginning of the year marked the beginning of International Teacher Education: Mainstreaming Diversity and Inclusion (DAAD), the follow-up project of International Teacher Education: Diversity and Inclusion. In the following two years, we will continue our work on making student mobility more accessible to all students of teacher education and on internationalising teaching at our department. To this end, we have planned international cooperative seminars of different formats and other exciting activities such as an international teaching week in 2024. We are also delighted to be able to offer our students four scholarships for practical semesters in 2024.

ISSDITE Film Launch

2023-02-22

The ZMML (centre for media and e-learning at the University of Bremen) documented central events of the summer school ISSDITE 2022 and produced a film about the week and our cooperative network. We are delighted to announce that it is now out and can be found here.

ISSDITE Summer School

2023-02-15

In the late summer of 2022 the one-week 'International Summer School: Diversity and Inclusion in Teacher Education (ISSDITE)', organized by Dr Dita Vogel in close cooperation with partner universities, brought academics and students from Namibia, Canada, Austria and Bremen together for an intensive exchange about Teacher Education in view of diversity and teaching practice in inclusive, intercultural classrooms.

The website of the summer school can be found here.