Nordplus: How is the Nordic culture and environment a part of my identity?
Written by Juan Rask for Nordplus: https://www.nordplusonline.org/project_articles/how-is-the-nordic-cultu…
Along with their bilingual adult students, four educational institutions from four different Nordic countries have been working hard to develop new shared teaching material about identity. Understanding each other is a constant struggle, but the students and teachers love the project.
What kind of identity can you create in a Nordic country if you were born and raised somewhere outside the Nordic countries? That is the question four educational institutions have set out to answer as part of the Nordplus project "My Nordic Identity". HF & VUC Roskilde in Denmark is the coordinating institution, and for teacher Annette Rydahl, the project has become very close to her heart.
“This project has brought so much joy to a group of people who are not usually invited to participate in a lot of things … and their commitment has left a big impression on me. When we were in Helsinki, one of the students said: Thank you for today – it has been the best day in my life,” she says.