Fireside chats on diversity & school

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10/02/2022
Posted by: MOTIVATE team

Fireside chats on diversity & school

We are happy to have had our first MOVE IT! fireside event this past Tuesday. Our topic for this evening was: “In need of intercultural competences? Chances and challenges of teaching in a diverse Migration Society”. The fireside chats are part of the Internationalisation@home offerings of MOVE IT!. Those events bring together students, practising teachers and other school professionals in an informal atmosphere to exchange experiences about and questions on the importance of diversity and interculturality in everyday school life. Due to the pandemic situation, the fireside chats are taking place digitally at the moment.

For our fireside events we are currently cooperating with the Berlin based association duvia e.V. which brings a lot of expertise in the field of democracy education and workshops around diversity. At our kick-off event, we welcomed two guests who work as a teacher and social worker at a school in Berlin. They gave us exciting insights into their everyday school life as well as the chances and challenges that arise with regard to diversity and discrimination. The students asked many questions and shared their own experiences which enabled us to talk about various important topics.

The next fireside chat will take place on 22 March 2022 from 19:00 – 20:30h. All SETUB students of TU Berlin and of our partner universities are very welcome to join. Note: The chats are held in German. To get the corresponding Zoom link, send us an email.

Berlin

"In a diverse world, my thoughts should also be diverse, and I have only achieved this by exchanging ideas with people whose thoughts and experiences enrich me. Through the exchange at MOTIVATE! I have come up with completely new thoughts and developed new ideas for myself as a future teacher and also as a person. Celebrating the now of education and having courage and visions for the later is what I have found for myself this year."

Sophie Beer

Student at TU Berlin and former MOTIVATE! student

"MOTIVATE! is a great opportunity if you want to think outside the box as a teacher student. You get to know facets of the teaching profession together with international students, make contacts and form friendships. It really is a good first step if you want to engage with education internationally!"

Jelle Oellrich

Student at TU Berlin, former MOTIVATE! student and exchange student at NTNU

"In any case, it is very valuable to get to know a different culture of teaching. The interaction with lecturers and students in Norway is more on an equal footing, so you get the impression that you are working on something together instead of just solving an impersonal task to generate points. A personal project is created."

Dag-Maximilian Dannehl

Student at TU Berlin and former exchange student at NTNU

"MOTIVATE! provides students with distinct benefits as they develop acceptance for cultural diversity, self-confidence, initiative and curiosity through cross-cultural learning."

Katrine Dalbu Alterhaug

Head of Internationalization at the Teacher Department at NTNU

"Move it again, MOTIVATE! and lets be creative and constructive with all we learned during the pandemic…"

Prof. Markus Cslovjecsek

Project Coordinator at PH FHNW

"MOTIVATE! enables students to freely exchange thoughts and ideas on relevant topics while also gaining important intercultural skills and knowledge."

Lina Schmidt

Student and staffmember of MOVE IT! at TU Berlin

“In the world today, schools can only succeed with an international approach: the diversity of pupils in Berlin and elsewhere, the social and technological challenges of the future, all this is globally and locally connected and we need a reflexive, well-informed and open-minded view across any borders.”

Prof. Dr. Susann Fegter

Director of the School of Education SETUB