EDUCATION MANAGEMENT RESEARCH & TRAINING PROJECT FOR BiH (BOSHMAN)

Minutes from the Boshman session in Teslic, March 5-9, 2002

The first Boshman session held in Hotel Kardial, Teslic. Responsible university; University of Banja Luka, Professor Zlatko Bundalo.

Introduction:
Participants arrived in the afternoon either by bus from Banja Luka or by private arrangements directly to Hotel Kardial in Teslic. After checking in dinner was served at 19, followed by a short meeting where all participants introduced themselves and were given information about the session.

Structure:
Classes started at 9 in the morning and went on to 18:00, with several short breaks and one-hour lunch break. The sessions were divided into lectures, groupwork and plenary discussion. Each lecture was limited to 45 minutes. The reading material for the session was handed out during the first day and information was given as to what articles are most relevant for this session. Participants were encouraged to read as much as possible and to be active in the groups and in plenary discussion. Some participants were more comfortable with this than other, but an effort was made to ask questions directly to participants to ensure a full participation.

Groups:
During Thursday participants were divided into four groups which are to work together for the rest of the sessions. Anne Welle-Strand informed how the groups were made and that assignments and groupwork in the future is according to these four groups. Anne Welle-Strand will be advisor for groups 2 and 4, whereas Arild Tjeldvoll will be advisor for groups 1 and 3.

Group 1: Branka Sunjic, Senada Omazi, Damir Hodzic, Edin Hadzikadunic
Group 2: Zeljka Kljajo, Selma Cipurkovic, Edin Begovic, Senad Turkovic
Group 3: Ferijala Hercegovac, Djorde Cica, Marijana Svincicki, Benjamin Vojnikovic, Dóra S. Sigurdardóttir
Group 4: Dzevdeta Zahirovic, Goran Radivojac, Vensada Okanovic, Mersudin Avdigegovic, Nedzada Faginovic

Assignments for the time until the next session in June are:
· A self-report on motivation for participation in the Boshman seminars to be handed in by March 20th
· Individual assignment of maximum 15 pages to be handed in to the advisor for comments by May 9 and then the final version of the assignment my June 9. Each participant will present his/her assignment during the session in Sarajevo in June.

List of paricipants:
A complete list of participants with emails, faxnumber or phonenumbers will be given to each participant in March, once the list is complete.

Discussions:
As the days passed discussions were more and more lively and directed to each university with a comparison between the universities or BiH compared to Norway. This was the topic of the last lecture and discussion on Saturday morning.

The session was over at 12:00 on Saturday and participants departed shortly after.