Teaching Across Borders
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Tina Grummel
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University of Oldenburg
Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118
26129 Oldenburg
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Teaching Across Borders
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Teaching Across Border (TAB) is a hybrid teaching/learning format that is like a virtual school internship in which we focus on analysing lessons, designing own lessons and burning issues in the classroom. You will dive deeply into your own school systems but also that of the Netherlands, Germany and South Africa. You will get to know students from different cultural backgrounds. Your methodological and your academic competence will broaden and you will internationalise your own education through being part of an international exchange. The participating students come from Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), the University of Groningen and NHL Stenden (Netherlands) and the University of Oldenburg (Germany).
Focus in 2026
In 2026 we are focusing on racism and school – racism critical education. After the kick-off workshop (which will include an input and a first round of getting to know each other) we will visit schools in the Netherlands, South Africa and Germany. One part of the group will attend in person while the others will participate online. Together with the other TAB students you will develop short tasks and teaching sessions and will get the opportunity to try them out in a real classroom.
Why?
- You take part in an innovative internship format.
- You get unique insight into a different school system, attend real classes abroad without having to travel.
- You strengthen you school-based competence.
- You broaden your linguistic, academic and intercultural competence.
Where and When?
- TAB I on 22 May 11AM -3PM CET (online)
- TAB II on 29 May, please reserve the whole day for the time being, workshop will take place in the Netherlands
- TAB III on 23 June in Oldenburg, Germany
- TAB IV on 29 October in Gqeberha, South Africa
* CET = Central European Time (UTC+1)
SAST = South Africa Standard Time (UTC+2) (e. g. 3 PM CET corresponds to 4 PM SAST)
For whom?
Master of Education students and advanced Bachelor students of UOL, RUG and NMU.
Contact the following if you’re interested:
UOL students:
RUG students:
NMU students:
NHL students:
Who is involved?
Prof. Heloise Sathorar (NMU)
Prof. Heloise Sathorar is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education at the Nelson Mandela University. She is also the Head of Department for Secondary School Education (PGCE and BEd SP & FET) in the Faculty of Education. Her research interest includes critical pedagogy, teacher education, higher education and critical community engagement. She has also done research in Accounting Education, and Entrepreneurship Education. Her most recent work is: Decolonizing the colonized mindset: Reflecting on lecturer dispositions to decolonize teacher education (JOE).
Prof. Dr. Till-Sebastian Idel (UOL)
Professor for School Pedagogy and General Didactics
School of Educational and Social Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences, University of Oldenburg
The focus of my empirical research is on practices of teaching, school and classroom change in development processes in context with changing educational policies and especially in progressive schools, and the embedded professionalization of teachers. My research is based in theories of practice and theories of subjectivation. I’m using methods of qualitative research.
Dr. Alex van den Berg (RUG)
Alex van den Berg is a teacher educator for Chemistry at the University of Groningen. He is also a secondary school teacher in Groningen and works for a consortium of schools on the theme of ‘active learning’. He coordinates a group of teachers who are doing evidence informed research in their schools.
Robert-Jan Smit (NHL Stenden)
Robert-Jan Smit (M.Ed.) is a teacher educator in the teacher trainer programme bachelor and master of English, at the Dutch NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (Leeuwarden/Groningen). The subjects he teaches range from Arts in Context to Applied Linguistics, and from Discourse Analysis to Teaching Writing. He also supervises bachelor theses. Robert-Jan has 21 years of experience teaching English at a Dutch secondary school. Of those 21 years, 15 were spent teaching and developing the subject of English within the framework of the International Baccalaureate’s Middle Years Programme (IB-MYP) in the bilingual department. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a field of strong interest.
