Nieman, Linus (2022) Internship Report. Internship report thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
There are several reasons to why I chose to work at the Michealshof Sammatz. After two years of theoretical learning in university my desire was to work on a purely practical level. I believe that the value of a practical experience is highly important for me, offering me insights and practices of “The real world”, balancing and connecting the two very different theoretical and practical worlds. The community, farm life and work with children offered me the possibility to achieve the latter and additionally dive deeper into, what I consider, a most valuable and knowledgeable experiences, working with children. Furthermore, I wanted to obtain knowledge of working closely together with a team dedicated to change and most importantly with a conviction tied loose of most external pressures and desires. The educational philosophy behind the institution was a further motivator behind my decision, offering a Waldorf and thus a close individual development guidance philosophy. My specific choice as to work with children in the community, derives from my perception that they form the future of our development. However, the children I wanted to work with offered an additional and mostly very different challenge as they have experienced many things, from all kinds of abuse to lifelong foster care. With this internship I aimed at understanding the consequences of children that had been abandoned, abused, and were left behind by the conditions where the system had failed. I wanted to experience and understand the underlying issues that are evoked through unstable and purely wrong upbringing. From an educational perspective I wanted to learn what it means, not to form and educate, in order to make the best possible fitting of a child for society and its system, but what it takes to “save” children from the worst and from within them evoke core values, experiences and skills in order for them to find a healthy place for themselves in the future. I found the internship via relational connections. As my original plan to go abroad had failed due to covid I had to adapt quickly and send a motivational letter as well as a CV listing my experiences and education to the institution. After some mail exchange I was accepted and travelled to Sammatz located outside of Lüneburg. Thereafter, I was able to investigate the different sectors the organization had to offer, yet it was clear for me that Peronnik (Child Foster Care) was my sector of choice.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Internship report) |
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| Name supervisor: | Schulz, K.A. |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2022 13:07 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2022 13:07 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/98 |
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