Afbeelding
Afbeelding
Afbeelding
Minor
Linguistic Diversity & Citizenship
Starts in
February & September
Ec
15 ECTS
Location
South Africa
‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (Mandela, 2003).
This minor will give you exposure to a different cultural environment in which teachers are operating. This will require you to pay close attention to your cultural sensitivity as experience teaches us that the socio economic and cultural realities in The Netherlands and South Africa are very different. We believe that this is the true value of this minor: to broaden your scope and explore the challenges and opportunities of education in South Africa.
This experience, we are sure, will equip you with an ability to work more effectively in culturally diverse settings and ensure that each child’s unique potential is unleashed.
You will be working with different stakeholders to develop a product that will solve a real life issues with regards to language use in schools that will enable leaners to use their own language to develop as optimally as possible.
Minor content
You actively contribute to sustainable innovation within the educational domain by stimulating inclusive language use. This means that children within education and beyond can use all their languages to develop as optimally as possible. This way you increase their chances of successfully participating in society (now and later).
You will methodically carry out design research aimed at a relevant real-life issue of an educational institution and/or another social institution in the Netherlands and/or abroad within one of the following themes:
a. including language use and (world) citizenship,
b. language and multilingualism didactics,
c. encouraging active and passive written language in formal and informal settings,
d. application of digital tools in the multilingual context.
You specialize in one of these themes by conducting the research.
- within an (international) learning community,
- from a broader theoretical framework,
- on micro, meso and/or macro level where you connect the various levels,
- in the social context and from socio-cultural, socio-geographical, political and historical perspectives,
- at regional, national and international level,
- possibly aimed at an age-specific target group,
- and according to a subject-specific methodology.
Structure of the minor
Week 1
Introduction to South African Culture through a cultural sensitivity lecture, visit the school you will be placed with Empathy stages.
Week 2 -3
Real world learning-spend two days at one school, Lectures, DBE, Reflection meetings (supervision)
Week 4
Excursions, spend two days in a different school, Lectures, DBE,
Placement meetings (supervision)
Week 5
Spend two days in the school, Lectures, DBE, Reflection meetings (supervision)
Week 6 -10
Spend two days in the school, Lectures, DBE, Reflection meetings (supervision)
Examination
You work on two end products: a portfolio and your professional product. As a group, you work out the real-life issue in an appropriate professional product. You also present the results orally to the client. You present the development of your personal expertise in a portfolio and a related assessment. This concerns knowledge development, competences and attitude development, including intercultural competences. In the end, these two products together yield 30 EC.
Target Group
Teacher Training programmes, ITFP students,
This minor is offered by the study program Education.
Questions?
Do you have questions about this minor? Ask them via the online form.
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