DITE – Page 2 – 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

Report on internationalisation of teacher education published

The DITE team is very glad to announce that Report on Internationalisation of Teacher Education has been published. This is a first PR of our project fully completed and we are happy with the result.Read more →
DITE newsletter launched

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Train-the-Trainer activities about to start

We are excited to take a next step in our journey towards internationalisation of teacher education. Out training team has prepared training modules for teacher educators.Read more →
Partners meeting in Poznań

We got a warm welcome at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań despite the cold weather. It was our third partners meeting and we celebrated 1st birthday of DITE project.Read more →