The profile for country:
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National coordinators:
Martha Lea
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Additional information:
Information about the Norwegian team:
Stavanger University College (overall coordinator) has 6.500 students and 650 staff. Approx. 10% are working in teacher training. The college has faculties in Humanities, Health and Social Studies, Tourist Management, Engineering, Arts, Economomy.
Stavang University College is running Comenius 2 In-service courses for teachers in addition to have taken the present initiative of establishing a Comenius 3 Thematic Network.
Upper Secondary Schools: Fairly large schools for Norwegian standards (some 30-50 staff + 300-500 students. Teachers taking part in the network vil vary from 1 only to 5 (Sandnes v.g.s). The schools are: Bergen Handelsgymnas (Business Upper Sec.); Garnes v.g.s. (focus on arts and crafts, design); Mandal v.g.s. (General Upper Sec.); Sandnes v.g.s. (General Upper Sec.), Frakkagjerd. v.g.s. Three of these five schools have teachers that took part in Comenius 2 In-service course organised by overall coordinator of the network (October 2001). Particularly two of the schools have wide experience in international collaboration with other schools and have strategic plans for increasing these activities. One of them, Sandnes v.g.s. involves students in European Youth Parliament (EYP). Teacher G. Helland from that school is member of the Norw. National Commitee for EYP.
Lower Secondary and Primary: Smaller schools (some 10-25 staff + 100-250 students). Teachers taking part will vary from 1 only to 6 (Byfjord School - a school that has particular expertise in intercultural relations and migration). Bokn School; Byfjord School; Røyneberg School. All these three schools have earlier Comenius experience: Bokn organised a preparatory meeting in January with participants from three other partner schools in the network (!) + two other schools. The initiative to this preparatory meeting was in fact taken during the mentioned in-service course in Lisbon in October 2001!
The Norwegian Emigration Centre has a long experince in working with the history of migration, and recently also in comparing todays situation with the past. The centre is small, but has a good exhibition and has a record of involving local schools and student teachers in their activities.
Johannes Learning Centre (Multi-language Centre) specialises in working with people that do not have Norwegian as their mother tongue.
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