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Besides informing about Canadian Studies Conferences/Associations, Teacher Training Seminars School Exchanges and new developments concerning classroom activities - recent publications of school materials, new links, etc. - this site also intends to provide information about cultural activities focussing on Canadian writers, artists, musicians, but also on readings, theatre productions etc.


Universität Greifswald - Department of Englisch and American Studies
Teacher training - "Canadian First Nations and Film"
August 28. - 29. 2008
Lecture by renown Canadian actor Tamara Podemski - classroom materials

Film: Four Sheets to the Wind (2007)

Enrol until July 22, 2008
Organizer: Dr. Kerstin Knopf and Grit Alter
Universität Greifswald

Training Program for Teachers of French

education and culture

A summer Experience .... à la Montréal

Teachers of French as a Foreign Language (FFL) with a mother tongue other than French, teaching at the secondary / high school or university level.

This training Program is also open to graduating students in Education/Teaching French as a Foreign Language (FFL)

Université du Québec à Montréal

- Learn French in Québec -

more courses and more information

Association québecoise des écoles francais

Geography in the classroom

Teachers, who would like to deal with Canadian topics in their lessons will find indispensable and excellent information, suggestions and materials in "Virtual Geography Texts" (VGT). This useful site has been recently updated. See also this homepage under classroom/Geography

VTG - Braunschweig (D), Marburg (D), Waterloo (CDN)

Universität Trier - Zentrum für Kanada-Studien

Intercultural learning: Canada

Apprentissage interculturel à l'exemple du Canada

Interkulturelles Lernen am Beispiel Kanadas

In-Service Training for Teachers / Formation continue

de prefesseurs de l'enseignement secondaire / Lehrerfortbildung

19. April, 2008 Palais Walderdorff Domfreihof, Trier


The annual conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the German-speaking countries, entitled "Global Change and Canada " is taking place in Grainau/Zugspitzdorf, Feb. 13th - Feb. 15th, 2009

Gesellschaft für Kanada- Studien

Teacher's Seminar

A continuing education program in Toronto, Ontario, for teachers of English. This program focuses on Canadian Studies beyond the usual tourist experience by covering a wide range of topics pertinent to Canadian culture and society. This program is offered by the d.a.i. Tübingen in cooperation with York University in Toronto. Accomodation will be with local host families. For further details see:
http://www.dai-tuebingen.de

Short Stories from Canada
This new anthology comprises nine stories from Canada, which not only reflect issues that are of interest in Canada, but are of global interest. As such they can be incorporated into any teaching unit in which Canada or literature play an important role.
Short Stories from Canada, Glaap, A.-R. and Rau, A. (eds.), Berlin: Cornelsen, 2005
www.cornelsen.de

Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale",

Albert Rau - Interpretationshilfe

  • Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale", Interpretationshilfe
    Cornelsen: Berlin, 2006,
  • Interpretationshilfe, order number: ISBN-10: 3-589-22221-2
  • www.cornelsen.de

Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale is a compulsory text in many University courses and it is also read in many advanced courses (Leistungskurse) in the EFL-classroom.
Find more information about Margaret Atwood

(c) Albert Rau