New Project Assistant for “FAU Teacher Education International”
In September 2020, Maren Hanneken joined the new project “FAU Teacher Education International” at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg as Project Assistant. She is responsible for assisting the development, the implementation as well as follow-up works on any measures taken in terms of the project.
Prior to transferring to FAU, Maren Hanneken graduated with a teaching degree (School type: Gymnasium, Subject: English, Geography) from Georg-August-University Göttingen by obtaining the Bachelor of Arts (2017) and the Master of Education (2020). Maren Hanneken has gained a wide range of international experiences. She worked as a Teaching Assistant in Michigan, USA and completed an Erasmus+ semester abroad at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Moreover, Maren Hanneken is a SCHULWÄRTS!-scholarship holder and completed an international teaching practicum at a school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She was awarded the Certificate of Interculturality and Multilingualism/ German as a Foreign- and Second Language (2019). Likewise, she dedicated her master thesis “Staying Abroad Actually Changed Everything” – An Interview Study of Teacher Trainees’ Perspectives on their Experiences Abroad (Georg-August-University Göttingen, 2020) to the subject of international experiences of teacher trainees.
Maren Hanneken is pleased to be able to join the project immediately after graduating university: “Within the project “FAU Teacher Education International” an impressive variety of measures are taken resulting in a wide range of positively affected spheres in teacher education. Thereby, the project succeeds in considering the intrinsic diversity of teacher education. I’m looking forward to contribute to the implementation of a long-term concept for the internationalization of teacher education at FAU drawing on my learning- and working experiences of my own internationally oriented teacher education studies.“