Teaching Days: School of Humanities

The Teaching Days of the Public Universities Teaching Academy begin on Friday, March 13th and last for a whole week until Friday, March 20th, where the public universities organize open and in-person events in all departments of the University of Iceland and the other public schools.

Event hosted by the School of Humanities: Teaching development in the humanities: Celebrating diversity. Árnagarður 310, 15:15-17:15. Local event. Everyone is welcome. In Icelandic.  

The Humanities Congress begins on this day and marks the beginning of the Teaching Days and members of the Academy, along with other scholars, invite to a seminar on teaching and teaching development. The seminar will discuss four teaching development projects within the humanities. A study will be presented on teaching methods and qualifications of university teachers in Icelandic as a second language and on the results of a survey on the use of gender-neutral pronouns to create a safe learning environment for non-binary people. Experiences of teaching the Aurora course and the results of focus group interviews with students of courses where teaching in two languages simultaneously were experimented will be discussed.