SOe207 International mobility/internship

Faculty of Education
Spring 2024

The course is not taught in Spring 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 15 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Košatková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Students do a 12-week internship abroad in schools, civil service departments, NGOs, local agencies oriented on education and social care. Students conduct an ethnographic research and interviews, do observation, job shadowing or teaching practice or tutoring. Before the mobility, students set their personal, intercultural, and professional expectations of their mobility and during the mobility reflect on their experience by means of experiential learning cycle. Students are facilitated to utilize their intercultural awareness and attitudes they have gained in the previous courses and by the end of the mobility will improve their intercultural skills and develop intercultural competence.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to conduct ethnographic research in various cultural contexts and reflect on their intercultural experience while abroad.
Syllabus
  • Students' internship/mobility abroad.
  • Online synchronous and asynchronous consultations with the supervisor.
Literature
    required literature
  • V. Savicki (ed.) (2008) Developing Intercultural Competence and Transformation: Theory, Research, and Application in International Education, Sterling, VA: Stylus
    recommended literature
  • Literature: Sedláková, M., & Košatka, D. (2021). Identities in the Era of Globalisation Reflection on International Experience as a Tool for Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Education. Pedagogika. Charles University in Prague, 4(71), s. 553-570. ISSN
Teaching methods
online cultural mentoring and guidance for students while abroad, online discussions (synchronous, asynchronous)
Assessment methods
Students will receive credits for the completion of the internship/mobility abroad.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 weeks.
Teacher's information
Students may be supported by existing faculty scholarship programs and other support opportunities
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