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The project overall aim is:
- Creating a knowledge base of the current societal developments in Europe, and beyond, to be made available for teacher education in an e-learning environment on a website.
- Translating these developments into teaching and learning materials to be used in teacher training.
The more specific objectives are:
- To identify and analyse current developments and to gather ideas and results of actions taken in European countries.
- To tackle the teachers? and schools? problems related to the multicultural society, by identifying the main competencies needed which could not only help them in their classroom management, but also to work in such a way, that no pupils are excluded on grounds of different cultural origin. In this perspective, teachers should be able to recognise and challenge for example stereotypes prejudice and instances of exclusion
- To develop cultural awareness and understanding among teachers and educators, and thus contributing to the building of the European dimension with particular attention given to the accession countries and the candidate member states and their problems in training teachers in a multicultural Europe.
These objectives will lead to several outputs, amongst others an e-learning environment (course) and a mobility framework. The Mobility framework is based on the principle of cross-cultural reflectivity. Normally, reflective learning takes place at the home institutions. By inviting student teachers into a multicultural setting outside their home country, reflectivity becomes cross-cultural reflectivity. It enhances the international discussion on multicultural schools and the competencies of the youngest generation of (future) teachers in Europe. These young teachers will definitely become, so to speak young rebels to criticise new general developments and will bring forward contextual local solutions to local problems. They will show their competency day by day by absorbing new theoretical developments and make them useful in local contexts like their own schools.
The method to be used in the e-learning environment is case based. The cases are written around critical incidents happened in real situations in the classroom and in the schools. These cases will stimulate student?s and teachers ? reflectivity by comparing these situations with their own experience and by providing them with new developments in theory and practical references entailing transcripts of student-teacher interaction and video fragments made in the classroom.
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