In the winter semester 2023/24, Carla, a prospective primary school teacher, went to Nijmegen (NL) with the INVITE project scholarship. There, she was able to gain experience for her future career at our partner university, the HAN University for Applied Sciences, and at a bilingual school, in which she worked 2 days a week.
In an exclusive interview, she reports on her time in our neighboring country so far, especially Sinterklaas, and also on what she's learned at university and at school.
Dr. Nina Dasouqi, the coordinator of INVITE, published an article in "Academic Mobility through the Lens of Language and Identity, Global Pandemics, and Distance Internationalization - Multidisciplinary Perspectives" (Mammadova et. al, 2023) about academic mobility in context with our project.
The article can be found in chapter 21 (cf. "Virtual internationalization in Teacher Education - Experiences from four Projects conducted at German Higher Institutions") and was written with Kathrin Wild, Wiebke Nierste, and Katrin Kaiser. The book can also be found at the PH library.
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