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DNS is an abbreviation for Det Nødvendige Seminarium, which in English means
The Necessary Teacher Training College. DNS started in 1972 in Tvind, Ulfborg,
Denmark and has influenced many educators in Denmark and further proved with
its pragmatic approach that through teaching and educating it can be at the
forefront regarding pedagogical issues.
In 1993, the second DNS started -
in Mozambique, where there was a great need for an education for teachers in
rural areas, where development is most urgently needed. Later on more DNS
colleges sprung up in Mozambique and Angola, in the wake of the success of
"Escola de professores do Futuro" in Maputo. At present there are seven DNS
colleges in Mozambique and six in Angola.
In 1996 Humana People to People
signed agreements with the Ministries of Education in Mozambique and in Angola
about establishing the EPF Teacher Training Colleges in all provinces. Since
then 11 colleges have started, and the graduated DNS teachers are at present
teaching more than 100.000 children in the rural areas of these two
countries.
Another 15 teacher training colleges, based on the DNS idea
have since opened in Mozambique, Angola and Malawi.
DNS is an
international teacher training college with a learning-by-doing approach. The
programme is untraditional and challenging (Study trip to Asia, extensive
teaching practice in Africa, social work with youngsters in Denmark) and covers
a wide variety of theoretical and practical skills, lots of experiences inside
many areas and emphasis of personal development of the future teacher through
big challenges.
DNS is exceptional because the education does not change
in order to live up to present-day desires for renewed qualifications. Rather in
its entire educational programme and in its constant and dynamic dialogue with
the world around it, it is part of "foreseeing" the present - and thus becomes
trend setting.
Around the world there is a great need for capable
teachers. Teachers who can, through their teaching abilities, achieve something
out of the ordinary. Teachers who are trained amply in multiple skills and who
have many and important life experiences from the world and its future, from
their own country, from children and young people as such, from learning and
changing - and thus can deliver and catalyze the world of knowledge and essence
to the next generation.
As a student in the DNS program you can regard
yourself as part of a global movement. When facing huge tasks like education and
development in rural areas, it is needed that many forces join hands. This is
the road to actually influencing and changing the situation. This is also a
tremendous inspiration to you as an individual teacher, who in this way will see
your efforts as part of something bigger.
DNS in Denmark has so far
trained app. 500 teachers that are now all over the world, teaching, training,
educating, managing and leading. |
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