Teacher trainee

As a student at DNS, you will - besides taking a BA in Pedagogy, carry out a log range of productions together with your team mates and teachers.
At the college, on the trip to Africa, in the city where you will live and work, in Saving Up period.....
Some examples:
* Making reports, presentations, radio broadcasts, documentaries,and other products for the Public Arena
* Teaching people
* Giving youngsters new life skills
* Working with boarding students in formation and educational programs
* Improving buildings
* Growing fruits and vegetables
* Cooking delicious and healthy meals
* Working together with people in working places in Europe
* Building muscles, stamina and new brain connections
* Improving health
* Gaining knowledge and insight
* Acquiring wisdom
* Getting new ideas
* Building comradeship
* Earning money through fundraising and creating values through practical work

As a student at the DNS college, you will – together with the teachers – be involved in carrying out
all these productions.

Bringing up and instructing children and youth to learn the skills and acquire the knowledge
and wisdom they need to carry the future of humanity is no small task. Teachers are needed
who know their trade, who possess a modern perspective of today’s world, and who are willing
to push the boundaries of tradition in search of ways and means of teaching and learning
that will genuinely provide the new generations with the practical tools, the ethics and the human
qualities they require to be able to take on life; as individuals, as progressive citizens of
their country and as modern inhabitants and caretakers of the globe and its beings.

The aim of the OWU Licentiate Degree in Pedagogy is to train such teachers. The program
lasts three years and is carried out in cooperation with One World University in Mozambique,
leading to what corresponds to a Bachelor of Arts degree at a western university.
The program takes you through three practice fields, each lasting one year: The International
Practice Field, the National Practice Field and the School Practice Field. Throughout the
program, you will work and study in a dialectic process between theory and practice. You will
use the real world as your training ground, and people from many nations and all walks of life
will be your teachers. You will acquaint yourself with the world by travelling in it and investigating
its conditions, using an old bus as your pedagogical machine. Later, you will move to a
city, get employment as an unskilled worker, and study the national reality, learning from your
workmates and neighbors, who are also the parents of the children whom you will teach. In
the third year, you will work as a substitute teacher, putting the pedagogical theories you have
learned to the test and trying out and investigating how children learn and what they should
learn – content and methods – using all your experiences from the first two years of the program,
and building your own foundation as a teacher, cooperating closely with the parents,
and finding out how you can widen your practice to the wider community around the school,
using your surplus to initiate both practical improvements as well as cheerful and relevant doings
together with the people around you. Throughout the program, you will be working and collaborating intensely in a collective setting with your teachers and teammates; sharing what you learn, studying, learning, discussing and concluding together, thus intensifying each element of the program and getting much more out of it then you would have done alone.

Welcome to DNS.
DNS is an abbreviation of the Danish, Det Nødvendige Seminarium, meaning The Necessary Teacher Training College. As it is not easy to give a short answer to the question “What is DNS?”, we´ll start by looking at characteristics that together may clarify what DNS is all about:

DNS is a gathering place of mostly young people, in possession of a good portion of curiosity, some courage and a bit of humor, who wish to learn about and experience the world in an organized manner. Some might even want to become teachers.
To do so, they first prepare for meeting new people and going new places and once there, they engage meaningfully with others in their daily lives. They discuss about and act on the world around them, and finally consider what could be done about it all.

Being on the move is part of DNS: travelling and going to new places is one way of being on the move, each DNS student is also on the move as a person, and DNS itself is on the move in regards to the society and world of which it is a part.

At the college and in the world where the education takes place, we practice a common life. This means we live together, we learn together, we make the daily life function together, we take decisions together, we earn the money together – in short we share ourselves and our time with each other.

Welcome to a life full of demands, learning, love and joy.

1st Year:
Period 1: Preparing self, group and bus for the travel, 2 months
Period 2: Travel by bus through Europe and The Sahara desert and several West African countries, 4
months
Period 3: Bringing it to The Public, 3 months
Period 4: Making and saving up money, 3 months
2nd Year:
Period 5: Experiencing and understanding the European reality, 6 months
Period 6: Pedagogical specializations, 3 months
Period 7: Doing what you find it most appropriate to do, 3 months
3rd Year:
Period 8: The reality of children and teachers in school, 8 months
Period 9: Pedagogical specialization and final exams, 4 months