Bertram’s experiences

PEACE JUSTICE CONFERENCE AT from a weekend at the

DNS- TVIND Necessary Teacher
Training College
WHAT IS DNS-TVIND?
 Could you live in a community of always changing ca. 30 people?
 Could you eat vegan and stop using plastic?
 Could you put all your salary to a shared economy with your fellow-
students?
 Could you let go of some of your personal needs for higiene?
 Could you let go of your personal need for taste-enhanced food products, comfy
accomodation? Could you challenge your idea on what poverty and well-being
really means?
 Could you challenge the stories and lies that politicians and Business
Communications have been constructing in your brain about development and
corruption?
Could you challenge your view on career and individualism that is so prevalent in
our atomized Western societies?
Okay, but why should you?
WHAT IS DNS-TVIND?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpLy92HklOE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sxeiJXVprw&t=37s
WHAT IS DNS-TVIND?

 Det Nødvendige Seminarium – The Necessary Teacher Training

College
 Private Teacher Training College in Tvind, Denmark
 ca. 15 teacher students per Class (Year)
 3+1 year education: Saving up year + 3
 Saving up: Work with elderly or
special needs children in care-homes
WHAT IS DNS-TVIND?
1st year after Saving up: 4 months field trip in Northern – Subsaharan Africa:
 Marocco – Mauritania – Senegal – Gambia – Guinea-Bissau
 Along the coast and back

 What are the subjects at DNS?

 What subjects can you teach in the end?

 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES ?
 What is the ratio between theory vs. Practice ?

 How did I hear about it?

WHAT IS DNS-TVIND?
FIRST QUESTIONS
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 I do not want to promote anything
 Just want to encourage debates and self-reflection about :
 What kind of teachers you all want to be?
 WHAT ARE YOUR BASIC NEEDS TO SURVIVE?
 Do YOU THINK that others HAVE OR SHOULD HAVE the same needs as you do?
R U SURE?
 How do you create the life you imagine?
 How do you become a role model for children?
FURTHER QUESTIONS
 We all have our unique look on the world
 WE all want to be normal and unique at the same time
 = MAINSTREAM VS. ALTERNATIVE
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 Are your point of views so unique that they are alternative?
 What is alternative? Inspired by a vision? Or a mission?
 What is your vision? What is your mission?
 What do YOU want to learn about?