ONE WORLD UNIVERSITY was created by ADPP Mozambique and the Federation Humana People to People in 1998. In 2005, the institution was approved by the Council of Ministers in Mozambique as a private university. It was accredited to deliver academic courses and degrees to the level of Bachelor and Masters with a national recognized qualification. It was also given its’ official name ISET – Instituto Superior de Educacao e Tecnologia — in short ISET/OWU.

1. ADPP Mozambique
Humana People to People
Presentation of
The Institute for Higher
Education and Technology
One World University
April, 2011

2. The Institute for Higher
Education and Technology
ONE WORLD UNIVERSITY
ONE WORLD UNIVERSITY was created by ADPP
Mozambique and the Federation Humana People
to People in 1998.
In 2005, the institution was approved by the
Council of Ministers in Mozambique as a private
university. It was accredited to deliver academic
courses and degrees to the level of Bachelor and
Masters with a national recognized qualification.
It was also given its’ official name ISET – Instituto
Superior de Educacao e Tecnologia — in short
ISET/OWU.
Member associations of Humana People to
People currently operate 30 teacher training
colleges in Angola (12), Malawi (4), India (3) and
Mozambique (11). These institutions are operated
in close cooperation with and approved by the
governments of their respective nations with
the aim of training multi-skilled primary school
teachers specifically for rural areas.
Since the beginning of the first ADPP Teacher
Training College 17 years ago, 9.200 primary
school teachers have graduated in Mozambique.
The Teacher Training Colleges have a program
with vast ambitions of modernity, knowledge, and
contemporary understanding of the world. They
are boarding schools and entail many activities
like training in community work and outreach
programs.
One World University was created to train and
educate teachers for the Teacher Training Colleges.
Since its start, the university has graduated 300
instructors with a bachelor degree in education
whoarenowworkingattheADPPTeacherTraining
Colleges in Mozambique and Angola, as well as at
the Teacher Training Colleges of the Government
of Mozambique.
In November 2008, a second course was officially
launched. The new course, called “Fighting with
the Poor” was created by Humana People to
People,with the aim of contributing to the struggle
against poverty.
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The college faculty was created to be able to serve
the Teacher Training Colleges of Humana People
to People in Africa and Asia. The colleges are
approved by and run in close co-operation with
their respective governments.
The admission requirement for the faculty is
the completion of Grade 12. Most graduated
instructors are employed at the ADPP Teacher
Training Colleges or in government teacher
training institutions.
The Teacher Training College trains teachers
specifically for the primary schools in rural areas
and focuses on passing on two fundamental
characteristics to the future teacher: 1) to be
an excellent teacher, and 2) to be a person who
is able to improve living conditions and create
development together with the people in the
community.
Thus an instructor at a Teacher Training College
is required not only to know about classical and
contemporary subjects and themes of interest for
the modern teacher and how to teach this to the
children, but also to possess the skill of how to
mobilise and organise children and their parents
around themes of health and nutrition, sanitation,
farming, water management and the culture of
community.
These goals put high demands on the students
at OWU, who must excel in all areas when they
become instructors at a Teacher Training College.
The Bachelor Course of Education contains several
general subjects and deals with both content and
the methodology of planning and teaching based
on an integrated and holistic concept. Each of the
three years in the Bachelor Course in Education is
given a specific headline. Each year is divided into
periods with its specific modules under the period
headline. Some last a few weeks and some several
months. Each module and year is finalised with an
exam. Below is a brief presentation of the content
of the periods.
YEAR 1: WE LAY THE FOUNDATION OF OUR
EDUCATION
During this year the students will acquire a
profound and detailed knowledge of many subjects
and themes, learn to ask new questions and look
at important issues by using a holistic approach.
The year is divided into 4 periods of 3-4 modules.
Throughout the year there will be studies, debates
and deliberations and the future instructors
are challenged to present difficult material in 3
presentations.
Some of the subjects covered are:
Backpacking: The very first week the students
walk through villages and nature, train to open
their eyes and ears to what they meet, and learn
that education is very much about life and reality.
Universal Understanding: This subject deals with
important scientific issues ranging from physics,
astronomy, biology, geography, history and the
world today. Through their studies, the students
learn how to represent a universal understanding
of life, of people, the globe and the universe.
Specific Understanding of the Teacher: Here, the
student deals with understanding the teacher and
the role of the teacher. The period includes all the
modules linked to teaching and education, like
philosophy of education, pedagogy and sociology.
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TheAbilitiesoftheTeacher’sInstructor:Thefuture
instructor will learn a series of skills:
“A master’s eyes are wide open” is about the ability
to see, to “look into the future,” to use the eyes as
“the mirrors of the soul.”
“And the mind is flying over the dust of the Earth” is
about being able to create something new, having
a vision and creating an idea.
“Development Psychology” is about how human
beings develop.
“The Psychology of Education” is about how a
human being understands and learns, how to
combine issues, how to conclude, and how to
create art.
Charisma: The Teacher as an Artist of Life: The
instructor of the teacher must be a good example
of a human being in all aspects of life. He shall
not only be excellent in methods of teaching the
subjects; he shall learn to guide in the production,
in the kitchen, in brilliant evening and weekend
programs, in sports and music and in creating a
good progressive atmosphere.
Exam After Year 1: Operating a Teacher Training
College
During 2 weeks the students take over the
responsibility of operating a DNS Teacher Training
College. They work together in groups and take
care of the students, the program, the teaching, the
boarding life, all other daily functions and the daily
management of the college.
YEAR 2: FOCUS ON PRACTICE OF PEDAGOGY
This year the students practice pedagogy while
studying related subjects. The year is divided into
three periods where the students in various ways
face challenging tasks practicing pedagogy.
The periods are:
Pedagogical Workshops
A Pedagogical Workshop is a small pedagogical
center established in connection with a primary
school to service the teachers and the local
community. The students learn about pedagogical
ideas, all technical installations and equipment,
the Pedagogical Workshop as a Cultural and Media
Centre and how to mobilize teachers in the area.
Three in One
Introducing 3 ways of learning (one month each):
1. Produce teaching materials for the DNS Teacher
Training Colleges.
2. Carry out an investigation in a foreign country
as a method of learning.
3. Preparing a monograph within education.
Teaching Practice, Monograph and Final Exam
The students will have five months of teaching
practice at a DNS Teacher Training College. During
this period they also specialize in a subject and
finish a monograph. The monograph has been
under elaboration from the very start of the
education, and should be about a subject that the
student chooses.
Exam After Year 2: Defending the monograph and
the teaching practice at DNS.
Exam in modules studied during the practice
period.
YEAR 3: ACTION RESEARCH
This year takes place at a Teacher Training College
where the students teach as instructors and train
to transform their newly gained knowledge and
experience into a practical reality.
Work as an Instructor at a Teacher Training College
The students now work as instructors at a Teacher
Training College and continue the practice and
have to live up to all that this entails.
Action Research
While working as instructor at a DNS Teacher
Training College, the students carry out an Action
Research Project. An Action Research is about
defining a problem from practical life in relation to
the primary school together with all those involved
and to find solutions.
Specialization
The students also do two specializations during
the third year. The aim is to study two topics in
depth, and reflect on the relevant methods to use
for spreading the newly gained knowledge to the
future teachers, primary schools or communities
in order to create development and new attitudes
to how things are done.
Exam After Year 3: Students present the Action
Research Project and take exams in the remaining
modules.

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The initiative to create the course “Fighting with
The Poor” has its source in a meeting with the
President of Mozambique. During a visit to ADPP
Mozambique, the President was particularly
interested in One World University. Hearing about
the future plans for the university the President
said: “I would like you to make a course for fighting
poverty. This is what we need. People who work
in the districts and with the people. You should
graduate bachelors in the fight against poverty.”
We agreed.
So OWU launched “Fighting with The Poor” in
October 2008. Since then it has admitted new
students each year in this program.
“Fighting with The Poor” embraces a dialectically
realistic attitude centering the development of the
graduate’s ability on transformational activities. It
combines theoretical and practical knowledge and
action within the framework of understanding
the basis of the plight of the poor and raising the
personal willingness and ability and readiness to
fight the good fight side by side with them.
Founded on the notion that it takes a larger effort
and longer time to create practical results than to
learn theories, and that it takes longer to perform
projects than to acquire new knowledge, the
education focuses on a pedagogy of movement
and change that draws on the metaphor of the
Big Bang Theory. Inspired by concepts in physics
and especially in the cosmology of the beginning
of the universe, the method employs an energetic
pathway of growth and development. As a super
small and concentrated particle consisting of
sheer matter exploded and started the history
of the universe 14 billion years ago, the course’s
pedagogy inspires students to methodically and
steadily develop through an ever expanding
explosion of experience and knowledge in a space
of possibilities. All of it realized for the poor on
their way towards much better conditions.
The time frame is 3 years. Each year is divided
into 4 periods. The total of 12 periods differ in
their main focus as some put more weight on the
training and education while others put more
weight on practical experiences.
The subjects areas are divided into 4 groups:
Foundation Studies are studied in 3 periods
of 2 months and entail: The Poor, Leadership
Intelligence, Life Style Skills, Partnership in
Development, The Contemporary World, and
Language.
Specialization is studied in 6 periods of 3-4 months
and entails: The Individual Poor, The Group of
Poor, The Organizations of The Poor, Future
Organizations of The Poor and My Test Piece.
Academic Subjects are studied in 2 periods of
3 months and entail: Natural & Environmental
Science, Agriculture, Technology & Production,
Expressive Arts, Health and English.
Minor Subjects comprise 50 topics representing a
mixture of knowledge, skills and abilities. Minor
subjects are studied in all periods.
Special Subjects are two subjects. One is in the
field of Natural Science and Technology and the
other in the field of Social and Human Sciences.
The aim is to train studies in technical topics to a
certain depth and gain more profound knowledge
in the area.
A Bachelors Degree in
“Fighting with The Poor”

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The Methodology of Teaching
at the University
OWU has as its overall methodology the Definition
of Modern Methods (DMM). This method makes
the student the main driving force of his own
education. This strategy is realized in the way
learning is organized in studies, courses and
experiences.
The studies are in essence implemented on the
initiative of each student. A main trait of DMM is
that it places a great multitude of knowledge at the
disposal of the students in the varied form of study
tasks, combined with access to modern sources of
knowledge to be found via computers linked up to
databases and more.
The courses have in their content and variety a
broad outlook on important matters of the world,
on human beings, on the subject of education, on
the future and much more. The course elements
are directed by the program, and thus the teachers
follow the directions and forward them to the
students.
The experiences are both collective and personal
in character and are planned and implemented
both by the individual student, by the groups and
by the whole team of students and instructors.

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OWU/ISET is situated in Changalane in the district
of Namaacha in Maputo province, 80 km from
the capital city Maputo. The university campus
comprises 6 hectares, located approximately 6
km from the main road. The campus is close to
the Pequenos Libombos mountains in an area of
scenic beauty bordering on Swaziland.
The architect of OWU/ISET is Jan Utzon, son of
the Danish architect Joern Utzon, whose most
well-known work is the design of the Sydney
Opera House in Australia. Jan Utzon’s architecture
combines modernity, beauty and functionality in a
most inspiring way.
The OWU/ISET complex has a total of 7000 m2 of
which 2920 m2 are shaded areas.
Located around ISET/OWU is 1.500 hectares of
arable land.
OWU plans to cultivate a part of the land as a model
farm and obtain self-sufficiency in food production
of staple foods, vegetables and husbandry.
The farming shall also produce a surplus of farm
products, which will be sold locally. Another part
of the land will be restored as savanna and provide
open space for wildlife.
The Community of Changalane will be involved
in Farmers’ Clubs activities and other training
programs with the objective to improve the living
conditions of the families.
One World University
A Complex of Modernity, Beauty and Functionality

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Each generation makes history during a period of time that it can call now.
Think about it. For the professors at OWU as for the students, that moment
in time is now. It is thus now the changes in society that this generation, our
generation, will be remembered for, must be made.
See it as an honor to belong to this species that has during its time on earth
created very successful societies, so that the numbers of it have skyrocketed.
See it as a challenge to be among those facing the transformational necessities
of this generation. Of your generation!
See it as an honor to be able and to be fit and to be involved in actions that
correspond with needs in the society as well as in nature.
We do not take these changes as a matter of course, but we see them being dug
out from these Bachelor study programs by the parties involved. Wholehearted
engagement will be necessary, as it always is, when man dares to follow his
ideals to their fulfillment.
Humana People to People