We hereby invite all participants of the ITENSA-project to a digital wind-up-seminar, 12th of November 2024
The project «Internationalizing Teacher Education Practice in Norway and South-Africa, (ITENSA)» was established in 2020, and is a collaboration between Nelson Mandela University in South-Africa and UiT, The Arctic University of Norway.
By the end of 2024, it is time to wind up the project and reflect upon the impact and the way forward for sustainable internationalization.
For the seminar we invite:
- all students from UiT and NMU that have participated in the project
- Teachers and school-leaders from following schools that have participated: Borgtun skole (N), Stonglandet skole (N), Cofimvaba Senior Secondary School (SA), Machiu Primary School (SA), Vukani Combined School (SA), Vulumzi Senior Secondary School (SA).
- Staff and scholars and leaders from Nelson Mandela University and UiT, the Arctic University of Norway.
Use this link to go to the Teams-meeting. You are not required to have a user at Microsoft Teams to participate.
Meeting ID: 333 043 984 804
Passcode: pjEdQR
Program:
| Norwegian time | South-African time | |
| 13.00-13.15 | 14.00-14.15 |
Welcome and introduction By Jens Breivik, Head of Department, UiT Moderator: Eileen Scheckle, NMU |
| 13.15-13.45 | 14.15-14.45 |
The idea behind ITENSA project, and the development of the project. Project leaders from South-Africa and Norway: Annfrid Rosøy Steele Eileen Scheckle |
| Break | ||
| 14.00-14.30 | 15.00-15.30 |
What has it meant being a part of ITENSA-project? From the students/teachers’ perspectives |
| 14.30- 15.00 | 15.30-16.00 |
What are the experiences from the participants? After a short plenary introduction: 2 parallel group sessions in break-out rooms: Group 1: Students (Group leader: Brynjulv Grønvik) Group 2: School Teachers/School leaders (Group leader: Tove Leming) Other project members can choose which group to follow |
| 15.00-15.30 | 16.00- 16.30 |
Panel-session: groups summing up and sharing experiences Eileen Scheckle and project group |
| 15.30-15.45 | 16.30-16.45 |
Closing remarks and way forward Project leaders from South-Africa and Norway Eileen Scheckle Annfrid Rosøy Steele |
Project goals
This project’s main goal is to increase internationalization and student mobility in Norwegian teacher education programs for primary and lower secondary schools, by establishing and developing a partnership between UIT- The Arctic University of Norway – and Nelson Mandela University in South Africa, as well as between the universities and schools in Norway and in South Africa; the aim is to strengthen and improve the quality in our international teacher practice.
Goal 1
Increased student- and teacher mobility is the main purpose of the project. The mobility shall strengthen the supervision and mentor perspective by knowing the students’ cultural and professional background – and strengthen the professional praxis in schools. To develop the relation will create sustainable partnerships for the future.
Goal 2
Yearly workshops to develop knowledge and explore common and diverse perspectives (democracy and citizenship, sustainable development, public health and well-being). Areas of interest within these perspectives have so far been curriculum for social justice, diversity education broken down into gender, class, color, religion and sexuality, amongst others, multilingual and multi-cultural education.
Goal 3
Developing courses that can be a part of an international semester. This will strengthen the focus of internationalization in our teacher education. Our goal is to offer courses in English for Norwegian and international students. Content in the courses will be a comparison of different educational practices, where we use the student’s experiences in teaching from their home country as assets on the course.
participants
There are four partner schools, two in each country. An important aspect in the project is to involve schools in the rural areas as well as city schools. This will give an opportunity for students to get a broader picture of the school systems in both countries and also an opportunity to strengthen schools which seldom have the opportunity to participate in collaborative projects with teacher education.
Borgtun Primary School
Machiu Primary School
St. James secondary school
Stonglandet skole
Vukani Combined School
Vulumzi Senior Secondary School