International Further Education Programme in Folk High School Pedagogy
This programme seeks to meet the need for further professional development of teachers working in folk high schools in their varied manifestations worldwide.
Study facts
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Campus: Porsgrunn -
Study level: Further education -
Progression of study: Part time -
Start up: Not defined -
Teaching model: Online and session-based -
Credits: 15 -
Charge: 16 600,- NOK There will be an additional semester fee. -
Closing dates: Expired -
Semesters: 2 -
Teaching Language: English
Online teaching
The university of South-Eastern Norway in cooperation with Global Network for Folk high school Research introduces International Further Education Programme in Folk High School Pedagogy. The course is English based and offers 15 ECT over 2 semesters. The students will meet for 8 online seminars and one three-day seminar, mainly online but with the possibility of students meeting physically on campus (hybrid solution). The course will also include sessions in smaller groups and individual mentoring.
Course design
The course design builds on project-based dialogical teaching that aims at empowering the course participants to enhance their own teaching practice. Through seminars, reflective group assignments, individual supervision and practice-oriented research activities the programme supports the students in designing, implementing and evaluating pedagogical development projects at their own workplace.
The course introduces central educational frameworks and backgrounds for folk high schools, such as the pedagogical philosophies of N.F.S. Grundtvig, Paulo Freire and Rabindranath Tagore. The course participants will also discuss relevant learning theory with emphasis on critical pedagogy and the history of folk high schools.
Course literature and seminars will cover topics such as:
- social and political perspectives on pedagogical practice.
- the development of folk high school pedagogy and related pedagogical traditions.
- the critical debates that have shaped the folk high school movement.
- contemporary social science perspectives on folk high school pedagogy.
- social science methods with focus on research on pedagogical practice.
- education for sustainable development, democracy and human rights.
Course work
As a part of the programme students deliver two mandatory papers dealing with their professional development. One of the papers is a group assignment where students design, plan, implement and evaluate an action research project. In the second paper the students reflect on their own teaching practice and connect it to the course literature. Both papers will be presented at seminars and reviewed at the final oral exam. Papers and final exam may be presented in the student's primary language when a reviewer is available in that language.
Each student will be assigned a mentor who will supervise the assignments and course work related to the participant’s own teaching practice. The mentor will have online tutorial meetings with the student each semester.
Admission requirements
The applicant should have completed a professional teacher training programme, as well as be able to document employment at a folk high school connected institution. The possibility of admission based on prior experience is available, but all students are expected to fulfil the minimum standard of Higher Education Entrance Qualification.
You must meet the English requirements to be qualified for admission. There are several ways to do so.
