COURSE LIST FOR THE BA OF EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Erasmus+ exchange students
2016-17
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Pedagogics, formation and practice in the school
The module deals with the interrelation between pedagogical philosophy and the view on formation, humans, teaching and
learning. Pedagogical paradoxes, dilemmas and conflicts are an integrated part of the module contents.
The module deals with class room relations, ethics of teaching, conflict management and class room management. The aim is
to qualify the student to carry out and manage the teaching taking into consideration the different purposes of the teaching
and the context of the teaching.
The aim is to develop the student’s ability to think critically and reflex constructively and to qualify the student’s judgement in
the pedagogical practice in a school influenced by cultural diversity, where dialogue, mutual respect and tolerance are
keywords.
Experimental IT in the school
Through creative and experimenting work, the student works with media and the didactical potential of different media. In
addition the student will analyse, assess and select and apply relevant media and technology. The student will be able to plan,
carry out and evaluate and develop courses with the application of IT and digital instructional materials.
Planning, Teaching and Assessing English Lessons
This module works with the following questions: How can one describe language? How can one assess the level of complexity
of a text? How does one build up the pupils’ vocabulary and communicative competencies? How does one assess teaching
materials including the employment of literature?
Language and Language Usage
This module works with the following questions? What is language? What is the learner’s language? What is the goal of
language teaching? How does one describe language? How and why does one teach the linguistic elements?
The starting point is communicative competence in relation to the subject in school and teacher training, including subject and
language overview. The focus is on a single ”language segment”, for example: target language type, learner language in the
initial phase or learner language in the final phase.
Religion, Ethics and Citizenship – general education
The module gives an introduction to different analyses of the purpose of the school, democracy and citizenship in an
ideological, educational and professional ethical perspective. A main focus of the module is the student’s relational work with
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the values of the school and the relation to the teaching profession in respect of the cultural and religious diversity that
characterizes the school and society.
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Teaching practice
Practical training in a local school.
Processes in Language Acquisition and Communication Skills
This module works with the following questions: How does one learn language? How does language development happen?
What are communicative skills? What is the relationship between communication and language acquisition? How does one
describe language acquisition and communicative skills? How and why does the teacher function as a linguistic guide? How
does the teacher organize his or her teaching so that is creates opportunity for language acquisition? What is the correlation
between the overview of language, acquisition, subject and the actual teaching?
Intercultural competences and internationalization
This module works with the following questions: What is culture? What is intercultural competence? What is international
cooperation and interaction? What is and how can the teacher’s textual competence be defined? What is the interrelation
between language and culture? How does the teacher prepare and plan his or her teaching in order to develop the pupil’s
intercultural understanding and intercultural competence through the international dimension, through the work with texts
and IT based working methods?
Intercultural competence in language teaching is about the work with intercultural competence from a linguistic and cultural
perspective that includes knowledge about culture and society in English speaking countries and in a global perspective. The
module includes working with textual competence based on different genres within the extended textual concept including
literature pedagogics and selection criteria for texts aimed at language teaching in the primary and lower secondary school.
The teacher’s planning of lessons
The module gives an introduction to the planning, implementation and evaluation of teaching. The module focuses on didactic
analysis, reflection and action as well as development of teaching.
The module deals with these four themes:
1. Planning of teaching
2. Organization and working methods
3. Evaluation
4. Entrepreneurship and formation
Inclusion, subjects and teaching practice
This module works with the students’ competencies to plan, teach and assess differentiating and inclusive teaching in a
teaching subject with a special focus on the different learning strategies and needs of the pupils as well as to provide an
understanding of the preconditions of inclusion.
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Culture, History and Society in English speaking countries
Interdisciplinary module within the subjects English, Social Science and History.
The module deals with selected historical and societal aspects and is completed with a project report.
Examples of themes and subjects are formation of states/federal states including perceptions of democracy and democratic
processes, expansionism as a theme in US history, colonialism and the British Commonwealth, the American Civil War and the
civil rights movements, Pax Americana, literary currents in British and American culture, media and cultural influence.
Teaching practice
Practical training in a local school.
The pupil’s academic, social and personal learning and development
This module deals with the pupil’s learning in a learning community. The learning processes and the development of the pupil
as a member of a diverse group is the main focus of the module.
The main focus of the module is the learning processes and the development of the pupil as a member of a diverse group in
which every pupil with its personal, social and cultural preconditions is a part of the school community.
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The module deals with these three themes:
The development, socialization and identity of the pupil
Learning, learning environment and learning management
The teacher’s interaction and communication with the pupils
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