Cooperation for the benefit of the Arctic people: MASU delegation visited the Arctic University of Norway

• 10.03.2020
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From March 2 to 3, the Arctic University of Norway (Alta) hosted a preliminary Russian-Norwegian seminar on the new issues in the teacher education.

The seminar was attended by the representatives of the Murmansk Arctic State University: Director of the Psychological and Pedagogical Institute — Tatiana Kuzmicheva, Head of Department of Special Pedagogy and Special Psychology — Yulia Afonkina, Head of Department of Pedagogy — Valery Chernik and their Norwegian colleagues — Professor Herbert Gottfried Zoglowek, Professor Werner Bigell, associate professors Kirsten Stein and Torun Granstrom Ekeland and a post-graduate researcher Elena Merzlyakova.

The meeting is a part of a longtime scientific and educational project of researchers from Russia and Norway «Preschool education in Russia and Norway: a comparative perspective».

The seminar participants discussed the content of elective courses on the Arctic countries comparative pedagogy that will be available for the students of an updated master’s programme «Innovations in Education».

The scientists from MASU and the Arctic University of Norway studied the phenomenon of an early childhood and realized the need for a new type of pedagogy and for the improvement in various aspects of teacher education. The early childhood was a main topic of the joint article that followed the previous stage of the project. Now the authors are invited to present this article at the Sixteenth International Congress of qualitative research that will be held in Chicago (USA) from May 20 to 23. The research team will be introduced by the co-author of the article, Professor Anne Beate Reinertsen.

In a free discussion the participants of the international seminar paid considerable attention to the conception of their next article as well as to the project applications to the Barents Secretariat and Barents Plus.