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Bi-directional Learning and Teaching: Lao-German Projects and Tandems

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      • 1.1. First Project Phase: “Teaching English in Laos” (2015-2018)
      • 1.2. Second Project Phase: “Bi-directional teaching and learning” (2018-2021)
      • 1.3. Third Project Phase: “Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship” (2020-2023)
      • 1.4. Fourth Project Phase: “Digital Citizenship and Bi-directional Decoloniality”
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    • Team XII
    • Team XI (May 2021 – June 2021)
    • Team X (6 February – 18 March 2020)
    • Team IX (15 October 2019 – 15 January 2020)
    • Team VIII (19 February 2019 – 5 July 2019)
    • Team VII (18 September 2018 – 22 February 2019)
    • Team VI (18 February 2018 – 15 April 2018)
    • Team V (18 September 2017 – 15 February 2018)
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Introduction of volunteers: Team IV

Posted on 14/03/201719/07/2017 by IMartin
All Posts, Teams
emotions, Germany, intercultural competence, internship, journey, teaching the teachers

Hello, readers! We are Team IV! We all started our big and exciting journey together in Frankfurt. Some of us

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Minister for Education and Sports H.E. Mrs Sengdeuane Lachanthaboune visits Angels for Children

Posted on 14/03/201715/03/2017 by IMartin
All Posts, Partnership
Activities, Laos, Lending Library, Ministry of Education and Sports, partnership, Teaching English in Laos

As a crowning moment of the third phase of “Teaching English in Laos”, the project leaders received a high-ranking visit

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Being a volunteer at the Sunshine School in Vientiane

Posted on 13/03/201720/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts
Sunshine School Vientiane, Teaching English in Laos

Sunshine School is a pre- and primary school in Vientiane within the Neo-Humanist Education system managed by the Ananda Marga

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Flashback: Three unforgettable months in Laos

Posted on 10/03/201720/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts, Laos, Personal highlight
Laos, personal highlight, Sikeud primary school, Teaching English in Laos

Before I applied for this internship, it had been a great dream of mine to travel to Southeast Asia. During

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Ms Souphaphone Vongphachan’s and “Linda’s”aka Ms Bouangeun Hanthavong’s Story: Why I want to learn English

Posted on 10/03/201720/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts, The Lao teachers
English, friendship, Lao teachers' essays, Sikeud primary school, Teaching English in Laos

I teach Ms Souphaphone Vongphachan, the director of Sikeud Primary School, together with “Linda” aka Ms Bouangeun Hanthavong, Madame Engel’s

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My experiences with the German teachers – Essays by Mit (Mittaphone Sichampa) and Noy (Phovang Inthavong)

Posted on 10/03/201720/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts, The Lao teachers
emotions, English, friendship, Lao teachers' essays, Sikeud primary school, Teaching English in Laos

During our daily English lessons at Sikeud Primary School, Mit and Noy, the school’s English teachers, wrote an article about

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Welcome to our new “Didactics Room” at Ban Phang Heng Secondary School

Posted on 06/03/201720/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts, Partnership, RIES, Workshops

After conducting our first workshop on 20 November 2016 on teaching materials we faced the problem that our Lao tandem-teachers

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English Certificates for Lao teachers 2017

Posted on 24/02/201702/03/2017 by IMartin
All Posts, Laos, Partnership, Teaching experiences, Teams
certificate, emotions, English, happiness, partnership, smile, Teaching English in Laos

Learning English is fun, at times challenging, but also very rewarding. To show our “students” how much we appreciate their

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My personal highlight: “And the true beauties are… Lao fabrics!” – by Lena Wink

Posted on 24/02/201721/10/2020 by IMartin
All Posts, Personal highlight, Traveling in Laos
Lao culture, Lao skirt, Lao weaving, Laos, personal highlight

Laos is often said to be a country where time seems to have stopped. I am really sorry to inform

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Our cooperation with the Research Institute of Educational Sciences (RIES)

Posted on 23/02/201720/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts, Laos, Partnership, RIES, Teaching experiences
English, Lao-German cooperation, partnership, Research Institute of Educational Sciences, Teaching English in Laos, ways of teaching

Prof. Martin: Part I Our cooperation with the Research Institute of Educational Sciences (RIES) developed Lao-style, that is to say

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(One of) my personal highlight(s) by Sara Stoehrer

Posted on 17/02/201720/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts, Personal highlight
Asian food, Lao food, personal highlight

  To write an article on one personal highlight is impossible! Instead I’d like to share one of the things

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New project video uploaded!

Posted on 17/02/201720/09/2018 by IMartin
All Posts, Partnership
English, friendship, Laos, partnership, smile, Teaching English in Laos

Some of the experiences Team III made in Laos can now be seen in the Team’s very own project video

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    DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching" Mobility (Cameroon)

    8:00 - 18:00University of Education Karlsruhe (Germany)

    Visiting Lecturer Mr Donald Beteyeh Nchofua (University of Yaoundé 1, doctoral candidate) works and teaches at PHKA under the DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" programme.

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    Nov
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    19
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    DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching" Mobility (Ghana)

    8:00 - 18:00University of Education Karlsruhe (Germany)

    Visiting Lecturer Dr Gifty Edna Anani (University of Cape Coast) works and teaches at PHKA under the DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" programme.

  • Mon
    01
    Dec
    2025
    Fri
    19
    Dec
    2025

    DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching" Mobility (South Africa)

    8:00 - 18:00 University of Education Karlsruhe (Germany)

    Visiting Lecturer Ass.Prof. Sibusiso Clifford Ndlangamandla (University of South Africa) works and teaches at PHKA under the DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" programme.

  • Sun
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    Dec
    2025
    Fri
    19
    Dec
    2025

    International Winter School "Democracy - Language - Participation"

    8:00 - 20:00University of Education Karlsruhe (Germany)

    The one-week conference is part of the DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" programme (2025-2029) at PH Karlsruhe. Visiting lecturers from our partner universitites in Northern Ireland, Israel, Ghana, Cameroon, and newly South Africa will cooperate with local students and colleagues to deepen our understanding of how democracy, language, and participation intersect and how language can be a tool for both exclusion and empowerment in democratic societies. Info und Programm Winter School 2025_en

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    Jul
    2026

    3rd Erasmus+ Mobility Project PH Karlsruhe & Savannakhet University

    Karlsruhe (Germany) & Savannakhet (Lao P.D.R.)

    Erasmus+ Key Action 171 Mobility Project between the University of Education Karlsruhe and Savannakhet University (budget 62.470,00 Euro): After our first two mobility projects, "Bi-directional Teaching and Learning" (2018-2021) and "Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship" (2021-2023), we now embark on "Digital Citizenship and Bi-directional Decoloniality" for 3 years (2023-2026).

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    2025
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    2025

    "ASA Academia global" 2025 Team XV Phase 2

    8:00 - 18:00Cape Coast (Ghana)

    After Phase 1 at PH Karlsruhe, our German-Ghanaian tandem-project (#1107) under the ASA Academia global format programme (Engagement Global) continues from September to December 2025 at UCC in Cape Coast. We work towards Sustainable Development Goals #4, #10, #16, and #17 and have planned many school visits. The research activities for Team XV are decolonizing ELT, teaching materials, and English curricula at school level.

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    2025
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    31
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    2029

    DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" at PH Karlsruhe (2025-2029)

    8:00 - 18:00Karlsruhe (Germany)

    With the new Get Ready for Global Teaching! project at PH Karlsruhe, we institutionalize and expand our international collaborations. With our partners in Ghana, Israel, Cameroon, Lao P.D.R., Norway, the UK and the USA, we will focus on global inequality, colonial thought patterns, and post-migrant societies. Through direct exchange, future teachers will further develop their cultural and linguistic awareness, reflect on key issues and challenges of our time from a global perspective, and design educational processes in diversity- and discrimination-sensitive ways.

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