Learning from Differences
This paper presents a case study of an intensive international course aimed at pre-service teachers and having a focus on inclusion. The course was funded by Nordplus. Twenty-three students from six Baltic and Nordic countries were interviewed during and after the course on their views on profession...
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| author | Virginija Bortkeviciene Hermina Gunnthorsdottir Karin Hjaelmeskog Ilze Ivanova Katriina Maaranen Brit Steinsvik |
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| description | This paper presents a case study of an intensive international course aimed at pre-service teachers and having a focus on inclusion. The course was funded by Nordplus. Twenty-three students from six Baltic and Nordic countries were interviewed during and after the course on their views on professionalism and their future work as teachers. The results show that the students’ understanding of professionalism was multifaceted, and they had gained several experiences of professionalism during the course. One of the main results of this study is, in our opinion, the co-operation and the opportunities the intensive course afforded the students in developing skills to work together with different people, to appreciate difference and to learn from others. In other words, to become more open-minded. This allows us to conclude that students can be trained to consider the importance and understanding of knowledge and its use for now and in the future. Thus, providing such short-term international opportunities is an important part of studying and becoming a teacher or social pedagogue for the globalized future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-78c0a9d7016742bcacce8f23bc794dea2022-12-22T01:38:57ZengOsloMet — Oslo Metropolitan UniversityNordic Journal of Comparative and International Education2535-40512018-12-012410.7577/njcie.2731Learning from DifferencesVirginija Bortkeviciene0Hermina Gunnthorsdottir1Karin Hjaelmeskog2Ilze Ivanova3Katriina Maaranen4Brit Steinsvik5Vytautas Magnus UniversityUniversity of AkureyriUppsala UniversityUniversity of LatviaUniversity of HelsinkiOslo Metropolitan UniversityThis paper presents a case study of an intensive international course aimed at pre-service teachers and having a focus on inclusion. The course was funded by Nordplus. Twenty-three students from six Baltic and Nordic countries were interviewed during and after the course on their views on professionalism and their future work as teachers. The results show that the students’ understanding of professionalism was multifaceted, and they had gained several experiences of professionalism during the course. One of the main results of this study is, in our opinion, the co-operation and the opportunities the intensive course afforded the students in developing skills to work together with different people, to appreciate difference and to learn from others. In other words, to become more open-minded. This allows us to conclude that students can be trained to consider the importance and understanding of knowledge and its use for now and in the future. Thus, providing such short-term international opportunities is an important part of studying and becoming a teacher or social pedagogue for the globalized future.https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2731professionalismprofessional teacherreflective professionalsteacher education |
| spellingShingle | Virginija Bortkeviciene Hermina Gunnthorsdottir Karin Hjaelmeskog Ilze Ivanova Katriina Maaranen Brit Steinsvik Learning from Differences Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education professionalism professional teacher reflective professionals teacher education |
| title | Learning from Differences |
| title_full | Learning from Differences |
| title_fullStr | Learning from Differences |
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| title_short | Learning from Differences |
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| topic | professionalism professional teacher reflective professionals teacher education |
| url | https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nordiccie/article/view/2731 |
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