24 Month Programme (DK) -
Fighting with The Poor
Period One: 12-Months Volunteering in Denmark
Studies, investigations, actionresearch and saving up money for the programme through volunteer work at Lindersvold School Center and social care institutions.
Period Two: 8-Month Volunteering in Developing Country
4 month volunteer work at a development project with a focus on Pedagogy - studies evening and weekends.
4 month volunteer work at a development project with a focus on Fighting with The Poor - studies in evenings and weekends.
Period Three: 4-Months Volunteering and exam period
Studies, evaluation and final examinations.
18 Month Program (DK) -
Fighting with The Poor
Period One and Two: 6-Months
You will meet your teammates, teachers and acclimate to the communal campus life. Your studies begin with understanding the world, the forces running the world, the history of poverty, the potentials available to humanity and what the future holds. You will begin studies, learning assignments and set out into society to ask questions and learn about The Poor. Your team also begins to fundraise to cover the rest of your program expenses (including your flight to Africa and health insurance while in Africa). You will learn how to empower The Poor and begin to train to become a development instructor in a third world country.
Period Three: 6-Months
This is the most challenging and exciting part of our program. You and your teammates set off to live for six months in a developing country. Depending on which campus you attend, you may be sent to Africa (Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia) or India. Our partner, Humana People to People, will be waiting to assign you to a program in groups of three (trios). You may find yourself working in health, HIV/AIDS, farming, water projects, sanitation, teaching or other development programs. Our partner has a long history of running projects around the world and provides leadership to our students. In turn, as a development instructor, you work with the community to empower them to work together toward sustainable solutions for their lives. You will be applying all that you learned in Period One and Two during your Service.
Period Four: 6-Months
After your service period your team heads back to campus. We call this The Journal period. You will want to reflect on all that you have experienced and take the time to integrate your service into your new world-view. You will finish studies for certification and create a final project to share with others. You may wish to create a film, book, website, radio pod-cast, speaking tour, poetry or any other form of creative sharing with the world the situation of The Poor. In addition, you will take the time to determine how this will affect your own future. Some of our alumni go into humanitarian careers, work in international aid and even choose to join One World Center permanently and work at any of our locations. We will also invite you to attend festivals, events and university meetings to speak to others about global poverty, your experience and encourage them to join in helping the most vulnerable people on our planet.
36 Month Programme (DK) -
Bachelor in Pedagogy
1st Year: The International Field of Practice
9 months: Training in experiencing and understanding the Global reality
3 months: Training in productive work, building on own efforts to save up money for your training.
·Design and prepare bus for travel
·Travel with buses – 10 students and a teacher in each bus through the Sahara desert to several West African counties. The study strip lasts 4 months.
·Experience the diverse realities of African communities
·Investigate local and global issues
·Live and learn with the local people
·Spreading the word and discussions on our current and future role in the world
·Present your conclusions, products, presentations in schools and youth clubs around Europe
·Save up money for your education
2nd Year: The European Practice Field
6 months: Working period in a large European town.Living a rich and active
cultural and political life, with continued studies and investigations, organizing cultural events, interacting with the local community. Living and working in a group.
3 months: Specialization Period I at the DNS college in Tvind. Studies in Polyhistor and starting zooming in on The School Practice Field. Action research in groups of three.
3 months: ''Do what you find most appropriate to do” ‐ a subject suitable for a future teacher. Identity between idea and action, between knowing and doing, is a precondition for making things happen.
·Get yourself a job in a factory or other workplaces
·Write and edit a book with essays about workers’ lives in Europe
·Study reality of Europe ‐ present, past and future
·“The House” ‐ create weekly cultural programs, with speeches and debates, art exhibitions, music, dance etc. Inspiring and provoking programs
·Working and living together practicing life style sustainability
3rd year: The School Practice Field
8 months: Experiencing and understanding the reality of children and teachers in a European school setting.
Getting close to the children, their parents, and to the school subjects with their contents and methods.
Option I: 8 months working as substitute teacher at public school settings in Europe
Option II: 3 months working as a substitute teacher in local schools around Tvind and Bustrup. 5 months working as a teacher or pedagogue in Danish Small Schools.
4 months: Pedagogic Specialization at the DNS College in Tvind including 1 months of final exams.
·Get yourself a job as a substitute teacher
·Establishing Pedagogical Workshops
·“The House” ‐ create weekly cultural programs, with speeches and debates, art exhibitions, music, dance etc. Inspiring and provoking programs.
·Working and living together practicing life style sustainability
·Action research
·The skills of a teacher – The eyes wide open, the hands well trained and the mind flying over the dust of the Earth
·Charisma ‐ the teacher is an artist of life
·Sociology of a child, a group and an institution
The program is organized so that you can feel yourself working your way up to the next level, becoming more and more skilled and experienced. Each period will be a new challenge. You will learn and train more skills, you will know and understand new things, and you will work and do things on a higher level. At the end of each year, you have a week of evaluation with your team at the college DNS in Denmark.
