INTERNATIONAL ERASMUS+ COURSE

Living and LearningTogether

Spring semester 2019Campus Haderslev

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February 1st to June 1st, 2019The Department for Teacher Education, CampusHaderslev, provides a one semester internationalmodular course specially designed for both foreign andDanish students.

The classes will be a combination of lectures, workshops,group-work, excursions, school visit, Socratic dialogues,and field visits.

The programme comprises 30 ECTS.

Course contentThe course focuses on value in education andcomparative aspects of teaching and learning, and willprovide knowledge about and understanding of aculturally responsive pedagogy in an internationalperspective.

Headlines from the courses1) Education and Culture in Europe10 ECTS Mandatory module

A general introduction to Denmark, Danish history, cultureand society and a Danish language course.

Various methods will be used:Socratic dialogue: we initiate our dialogues from

reading the book Momo by Michael Ende.Project work: we learn from each other’s education

systems and create the very best education system.School experience (two weeks): students will observe

the Danish way of teaching and organising school, andmay try out some teaching themselves as well.

The course module ends with a final comparativearticle on a topic chosen by the student.

2) Creative Learning in School,10 ECTS Elective module

This module consists of different creative workshops onthe basis of “aesthetic learning processes”, including art,drama, movement, storytelling and role play. Students getto test innovate methods of teaching, and will get to workindependently, creatively and practically during the wholeprocess.

Materials will be collected to create an on-line platformwith the products. The basis in this module is creativelearning processes - both when it comes to experiencingthese as a student and when it comes to transformingthese to the classrooms in school.

3) Outdoor Learning and Living10 ECTS Elective module

Students will move outside the classroom in this module.All classes will take place outside the University, in nature,or at the Museum in Haderslev.

We will live for three days in an Iron Age inspired villageand experience how life was in year 500 (B.C.) – 850(A.C.). We will go back to nature to learn how to take careof the natural invironment, and we focus on play, learningby doing, experience and experiential knowledge.

Students will trek along some of the old cultural routesin the surroundings of Haderslev. Amongst other thingswe will learn how to cook food on a campfire to be ableto pass it on to future students. In this course you must beprepared to be outside most of the time.

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4) Youth Culture Expressed through Music10 ECTS Elective module

In this course module, focus will be on music as a tool forunderstanding youth cultures from the 1950s to thepresent time. Students will study literature on youthculture and analyse lyrics and create music themselves.Students do not need to have any education in music,just an interest in music as a tool of expression.

5) English: Language and Language Use10 ECTS Elective module

This module is part of the teacher education curriculumfor becoming English teachers in Denmark. Inorder to choose this, students must be English languageteacher students.NB. There is also a possibility to choose a module inGerman as a foreign language under the sameconditions.

Target groupsStudent teachers; primary and lower secondary school.

AimsThis course will provide students with skills, knowledgeand experience that will promote their interculturalcompetences, i.e. the ability to live and work in diversegroups. In a comparative perspective on educationsystems, the students will work towards becomingreflective, creative and innovative teachers.

AssessmentEach course module includes assessment based on oraland/or written presentations. At least 80% attendance isrequired in each course module.

AccommodationUniversity College South Denmark will help you findaccommodation. The price for accommodation is app.EUR 375. per month. See ucsyd.dk/int for moreinformation.

RequirementsThe course requires English language skills on a B2 levelaccording to the Common European Framework ofReferences for Languages (CEFR). All course materialswill be in English, and the language of instruction isEnglish.

AttentionAll students must bring the following book:Momo by Michael Ende (can be boughtsecond hand and the 2009 edition from Puffinis preferable).

The students of the Outdoor Learning and Living coursemodule must bring good hiking footwear, outdoorclothing and a good sleeping bag for the stay in the IronAge village.

ApplicationNominations for participation to be send no later thanNovember 1st toInternational AssistantAnne Jeppesenacje@ucsyd.dk+45 7266 5011

Further informationInternational CoordinatorJette Laursenjlau@ucsyd.dk+45 7266 5021

Kolding

AabenraaHaderslev

Esbjerg

UC SYDCampus Haderslev

Lembckesvej 76100 HaderslevDenmarkinternational@ucsyd.dk

ucsyd.dk/int