The Laos Experience 🇱🇦🇬🇭🇩🇪

Call for Applications open until 14 May: Team XII (October 2023 - January 2024)
2023-02-22 - 2023-05-14
New start: 5 out of 10 volunteer places for “Bi-directional Decolonial Teaching and Learning” are filled already – if you want to work with a Lao tandem-teacher, you can apply for one of the remaining 5 places. The timeframe is October to January; longer stays are possible.
Contact Julia Friedl or Prof. Martin at PH Karlsruhe.
Current partner schools and colleges are:
Lao-German Technical College (Vientiane), Vocational Education Development Institute (Vientiane), NEW: Champasak Technical College (Paksé)
NEW: Luang Prabang Technical College (Luang Prabang)

Erasmus+ Student Mobility: Thongther Lovanthak (SKU, Faculty of Linguistics) at PH Karlsruhe
2023-03-03 - 2023-08-31

Erasmus+ Staff Training Mobility: Somsanouk Xayyavong (SKU, Faculty of Informatics) at PH Karlsruhe
2023-04-01 - 2023-06-30

IATEFL 56th International Conference & Exhibition 2023
2023-04-18 - 2023-04-21
IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) International Conference 2023
Paper by I. Martin: “Bi-directional Decoloniality in Applied Linguistics: A Lao-German cooperation project”

"Global Englishes, Global ELT & Global Citizenship Education": B.A. seminar, summer term 2023
2023-04-19 12:00 - 2023-07-26 13:30 (Europe/Berlin)
Topics are prepared together by 2-3 students and Prof. Martin: Student Mobilities: Studying & Teaching Abroad (Julia Friedl, International Office); RFCDC: Competences for Democrativ Culture (guest presenter Dr Raphaelle Beecroft); Workshop Postcolonialism & Anti-Racism (guest presenters Caesar Mbotana & Katharina Jung); Global Englishes; Global Citizenship Education; Teaching the Sustainable Development Goals; Education & Culture in Laos; Women & Education; Stereotypes, prejudices, xenophobia; Decoloniality: Mobility programmes, Education in South Korea & Romania
