DNS The Necessary Teacher Training College

DNS is a private teacher training college founded in 1972 in Denmark. DNS educates teachers who wish to achieve something extraordinary as educators. A strong focus of the education lies in community involvement and teamwork, since the students live together in a boarding school. The school was founded as a part of progressive youth movements that wanted to increase citizens' participation in the governance and development of the country, to stop wars (especially risk of nuclear warfare), to grant and uphold gender equality, protect the rights of LQBTQIA community, protect the environment, develop renewable sources of energy and more. The teachers who invented the programme were also inspired by the first-hand experience of overwhelming poverty that dominated the globe and which was unknown to the general public in Europe. The creation of the college was regarded as necessary in face of these changes and that's why the school is called The Necessary Teacher Training College (Danish: Det Nødvendige Seminarium - DNS). Nowadays, constantly adapting to the changing world, the college sticks to its principals and cooperates in a national and a worldwide network of schools and developmental projects. Amongst many elements, DNS-programme includes: -a four-month travel by own bus to Western Africa where DNS-students conduct field investigations and join developmental projects in order to learn more about the world. -a six months of animating and investigating a European city in order to learn more about Europe and the background of their future students. -an eight-month teaching practice, where DNS-students receive a lot of responsibilities. -deciding on the programme and running the school centre together: students and teachers. -taking care of a windmill - once the biggest windmill in the world. -sharing life and co-creating the programme together with youth with special needs. -organising big events promoting: sport, Peace Justice, Climate Justice, theatre, music and more. -study tours and volunteering project, including the work with refugees. -being active in the local community, especially in the field of children education and building cross-cultural bridges. -taking care of school's own ecological farming.