DITE – Diverse Internationalisation of Teacher Education

Why?

Teacher Education (TE) in universities has remained one of the least internationalised subjects in higher education. Yet, teachers are expected to educate future generations to become global citizens. In other words, students of teacher education are so far ill-equipped to transform their prospective pupils into individuals with a global mindset.

What?

DITE focuses on the element of internationalisation to increase capabilities of future teachers by sensitising TE students to international perspectives. We know from the Erasmus Impact Study 2014 and various follow-up studies that mobility is not the solution if we want a large percentage of students (90%+) to be reached by internationalisation. Therefore, DITE relies on internationalisation at home (IaH) to develop a model of globalised teacher education through diverse internationalisation with a focus on students becoming teachers in upper secondary education.

How?

We are going to learn about the status quo of the internationalisation of teacher education in our countries. Gathered information will become a basis for the series of trainings for the academic teachers who teach students of teacher education and for students as well. We are going to present a model and guidelines for implementing DITE in other insitutions. We are aiming at creating a network of organisations from within and outside the consortium. This DITE network will build on dissemination efforts and ensure long-term sustainability by keeping the DITE spirit alive.

Who?

A project consortium is created by 6 institutions focused on different aspects of internationalisation of higher education: University of Szczecin, Poland (a project leader) and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, University of Porto, Portugal, Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, Global Impact Institute, Czech Republic and SGroup – Universities in Europe.

News

The DITE trainer’s manual is ready

We are happy to share trainer’s manual! We have gathered our best practice and experience in this document.Please, have a look how to introduce internationalisation to your classroom.Read more →
The DITE conference and partners meeting in Szczecin

The University of Szczecin team was happy to host both DITE International Conference and partners meeting this week. We followed a rather busy schedule but managed to complete quite a few tasks!Read more →
DITE conference invitation

We are proud to announce that registration for the DITE international conference is open. On 20 June 2023 we meet at the University of Szczecin to talk about what internationalisation of teacher education really is and to look beyond mobility. Teachers, academic teachers, students and representatives of organizations related to teacher education are cordially invited.Read more →
DITE training and partners meeting in Tarragona

It’s been a very busy week for the entire DITE team. Universitat Rovira i Virgili hosted us for the final on-site session of the DITE training as well as a partners meeting.Read more →