Teaching abroad !

Have you ever thought of going abroad to teach !? It could be the ideal solution for people interested in working internationally: there’s the opportunity to move around and see a lot of the globe, while being active as a professional in the field you love, making lots of connections and networking with lots of like-minded people.
Without knowing the exact statistics for our university or any university for that matter, it is safe to say that not many take up this interesting challenge. It would be interesting to hypothesize why this is the case, but for now I leave that to the reader.
Here’s why: this blog post is meant to be about someone who did take the jump and went off to Poland to teach, Han Bakker. He combined his specific interest in Poland with his passion for creativity and sought out his university contacts in Lódz and Jelenia Gora .
First Han visited the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź to teach and meet up with the inspiring Prof. Makary Krzysztof Stasiak in order to continue talks on the theme of creativity. Interestingly, this is a university with a separate society for Creative Initiative . So obviously, Han's lectures on creative thinking fell on fertile ground.
After a week of teaching students, meeting other lecturers in Łódź and presenting his own research on Idea Management, Han continued his trip to Jelenia Gora, a town situated in south western Poland, bordering on Germany and the Czech Republic.
Recently cooperation with Kolegium Karkonoskie was established and to put the Erasmus (LLP) bilateral agreement quickly into effect our colleague also travelled to this interesting Euro region. Apart from teaching, there were also talks on teacher and student exchange. Moreover, Rotterdam, the School of Social Work (ISO) and the Rotterdam Model of Education was discussed and illustrated.
For a visual report of this fascinating visit, see the picture gallery below.