Global awareness and professional teacher competence through student mobility from Norway to Zambia

This paper is part of the project “Teacher in a Globalized World”, where we, through qualitative interviews, analyse the long-term effects at least five years after their student mobility from Norway. At Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, teacher students have been privileged to study Global Knowledge, a 30 ECTS subject, as part of their teacher education. How do five Norwegian teachers describe their professional development and global perspectives as teachers many years after a three-month stay in Zambia as part of the subject Global Knowledge? Some key findings include the importance of relationships, intercultural communication, the positions as Norwegians and global awareness as professional teachers today.