EDU4330 – Internship
Course description
Course content
The GLOBED internship represents an opportunity for you to participate in the everyday work of an organization, and you are encouraged and expected to make the most of this experience.
The internship provides you with the opportunity to make stronger and more meaningful links between the theoretical literature you have been reading and the realities of education for development work on the ground. You will be required to select a country and an organization working in the area of education for development.
The consortium of Universities has a list of associate partners who have confirmed their willingness to offer internship opportunities. You will be provided with this list and The University of Malta will provided help to contact the institutional/agency mentors and to secure a placement.
You will be expected to draw on the theoretical literature studied throughout the first year of the course in order to make sense of the complex situations you will encounter during their internships, using reflective inquiry strategies in order to connect theory with practice and to deepen your understanding of the many ways in which theory and practice 'feed' each other.
Learning outcome
By the end of the internship, you will be able to:
Knowledge:
- demonstrate deeper grasp of the relevance of theoretical frameworks to practical situations marked by complexity and ambiguity
- justify one's behavior by referring to theoretical and ethical foundations discussed throughout the first year of the course
Skills:
- draw eclectically from a range of theories in order to make sense of situations encountered, particularly with reference to social justice issues
Competence:
- work in different cultural and socio-economic settings
Admission
The course is offered to students that have been accepted to the GLOBED Joint Master’s degree programme. Students must have completed the courses of the first year in order to qualify for the course. A maximum of 15 students may enter the course.
Prerequisites
Recommended previous knowledge
Students must have passed the first year courses of the GLOBED programme in order to attend this course.
Teaching
Access to teaching
There is no formal teaching during this course.
Examination
The assignment will be based on a written report. The report has to provide evidence of your activity in the institution. It will consist of two components: first an analysis of the organization and second a collection of relevant items. The report must not exceed 3500 words in length. Requirements and deadlines will be announced at the beginning of the semester.
For example, the analysis section will show that the you are able to:
- outline the profile of the organisation concerning the number of staff, economic resources, mission, vision, institutional history and other related matters;
- spell out the official strategy of the organisation and distinguish the core processes through which this strategy is implemented;
- note which secondary processes are necessary to carry out these core processes (e.g.funding, staffing, communicating, innovating, knowledge management, training, guaranteeing equality and others), and
- reflect on the results of the institution work as well as on their relationship with the strategy.
For example, the collection of relevant items can include:
- products of your work in the organisation (e.g. internal reports, contributions to meetings,publications)
- notes focusing on the relationship between your research and the internship organization
- your personal contribution to the organization's external communication instruments (e.g. blogs, social networks)
- personal reflections
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.
Explanations and appeals
Resit an examination
Special examination arrangements
Application form, deadline and requirements for special examination arrangements.
Evaluation
The course is subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students to participate in a more comprehensive evaluation.