
Project description
The internationalisation of teacher education (TE) and the creation of a European Higher Education Area (EHEA) are increasingly important aspects of European TE, political deliberations, and scientific research (European Parliament, 2015; HRK, 2018). The main focus of the internationalisation of TE lies on the enhanced professional development of teachers, comprehensive cooperation between local and international higher education institutions, joint teaching-learning programs, degrees and research, the creation of coherent curricula, and an increase in both student teachers’ and educators’ physical and virtual mobility (European Commission (EC), 2013; EP, 2015). The internationalisation of TE can be achieved within the context of coherence, focussing on domains, subjects and phases of TE, thus being implemented both structurally, content-, and staff-related.
Considering the rather weak coherence between educational structures and concepts within national TE systems, transnational coherence appears to be especially weak: The large diversity of European TE systems currently represents a central barrier for the physical and virtual mobility of student teachers and educators. A transnational approach to this issue seems promising in two ways: A systematic comparison of TE structures and concepts will provide deeper insights into current paradigms of coherence orientation in European TE. Building on this, a joint development and evaluation of teaching concepts and learning opportunities as good practice can be implemented.
The project “ConnEcTEd”, funded by the EU (Erasmus + KA 203), thus aims at dealing with challenges to structural, conceptual, and transnational coherence in European TE in a collaborative way. ConnEcTEd also supports TE educators of participating universities by establishing transnational professional learning communities, providing knowledge about European TE systems, permitting access to professional training opportunities (e.g. video-tutorials, virtual scenarios), and by integrating a coherence orientation in their teaching. This will lead to a further enhancement of European TE and represents an important step towards a strengthened EHEA.
Project Coordinators
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Kotthoff (Educational Sciences, Director School of Ed. FACE)
- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katja Zaki (Didactics of Romance Languages)
- Dr. Katharina Hellmann (Educational Sciences)
- Dr. Verena Bodenbender (Head of the International Office)
Partners
Coordinator:
University of Education Freiburg
Université Côte d'Azur Nice
University of Freiburg
University of Helsinki
University of Oslo
University of Turku
University of Zagreb
The University of Education Freiburg (“Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg,” PHFR) has a more than 40-year-old tradition of educational research and international cooperation in teacher education and offers a full range of possible degrees. It has a strong commitment to empirical research in a European and international context, which is pursued across three faculties and reflected in a steady increase of third party funded research in education in recent years. There are currently about 250 academic staff and 4,800 students at the PHFR. With its broad range of Bachelor and Master courses, along with TE programs, the PHFR offers excellent research based first-degree level qualifications as well as further education. During the last forty years, the university has developed an extensive and long-standing network of contacts abroad which consists of official twinning and co-operation agreements with approximately 120 universities and colleges in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. A number of PhD programs and (European) research projects promote a wide range of young researchers at the PHFR, and with approximately 90 research projects, this makes the PHFR a key position within the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the promotion of young researchers.
Since 2015, the PHFR and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (ALU) have very successfully cooperated in two major projects as part of the Federal ‘Quality Initiative Teacher Education’ with an explicit focus on ‘coherence and professional orientation in teacher education’. Thus, ConnEcTEd represents an ideal continuation of this past and current focus in research and teaching for both universities and their new partners and fits perfectly into the current and future research and teaching agenda of a newly established School of Education Freiburg (“FACE”).
Project Coordinators
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Kotthoff (Educational Sciences, Director School of Ed. FACE)
- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Katja Zaki (Didactics of Romance Languages)
- Dr. Katharina Hellmann (Educational Sciences)
- Dr. Verena Bodenbender (Head of the International Office)
Founded in 1811, the University of Oslo (UiO) is one of the main comprehensive universities in Norway. UiO offers a broad range of BA-, MA- and PhD-programmes. In total, UiO’s eight faculties have around 28,000 students and 4000 academic staff. UiO is ranked nr. 1 in Norway and nr. 121 in the world in Times Higher Education World University Ranking of 2019. Being part of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, the Department of Teacher Education and School Research offers several one- and five-year teacher education programmes for lower and secondary high schools as well as several post-MA courses within the field of mentoring and school leadership. The Department’s study programs are research based and highly attractive for applicants aiming for a career in education. The Department is home to the government-funded Centre for Professional Learning in Teacher Education, QUINTNordic Centre of Excellence: Quality in Nordic Teaching as well as the Unit for Quantitative Analysis in Education (EKVA), which is responsible for carrying out the PISA-assessment as well as other national and international assessment programmes. In addition, the Faculty is home to Centre for Educational Measurement, a highly profiled research unit concerned with the development, comparison and assessment of instruments for education measurement. Academic staff at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research are working together in four research groups aiming to contribute to the foundation for innovation of teacher education in Oslo, Norway and Europe. These research groups cover four main topics within educational research: teacher professionalism, instruction, assessment and sustainability. The Department coordinates, amongst other projects, the EU Horizon 2020-project Science Education for Action and Engagement towards Sustainability.
In order to prepare teacher students for teaching in a multilingual and multicultural setting, we aim to find new ways to increase internationalization. At the same time, we aim to prepare students for teaching in ever-changing digital settings. The motivation for participating in the ConnEcTed consortium is the result of the combination of these aims as well as our obligation to underpin teacher education with an up-to-date and ambitious, international research programme. The Department has its own internationalization liaison working to find good solutions for short- and long term internationalization in the one- and five-year teacher education programmes. The one-year practical- pedagogical teacher education programme, recruiting students who have a relevant MA in one or several school subjects, is a very dense programme, leaving little or no time for studying abroad. This makes it highly relevant for UiO to contribute to find new solutions for digital and/or virtual internationalization. The Research Council of Norway funded Coherence and Assignment in Teacher Education project (CATE), that is now finished, involved several of the Department’s academic staff, including Esther Canrinus, who is participating in the ConnEcTed project on behalf of Agder University. The CATE project resulted in new insights in the (visions about) coherence in teacher education programmes and is thus highly relevant for the planned research project.
Team
- Local Coordinator: Dr. Gerke Doetjes
- Project members:
- Dr. Ida Hatlevik
The University of Helsinki (UH) is the oldest and largest institution of academic education in Finland, an international scientific community of 40,000 students and researchers. The University of Helsinki is also one of the best multidisciplinary research universities in the world and it is the only Finnish university to consistently rank in the top 100 of international university rankings. The University of Helsinki seeks solutions for global challenges and creates new ways of thinking for the best of humanity. Through the power of science, the University has contributed to society, education and welfare since 1640. The University of Helsinki employs approximately 7600 people of which 60% are teachers and researchers. The high-quality research carried out by the university creates new knowledge for educating diverse specialists in various fields, and for utilisation in social decision-making and the business sector. In 2017, University of Helsinki researchers produced 11,446 publications. Of peer-reviewed academic publications half are produced as a result of international cooperation.
University of Helsinki belongs to several international networks, one of them being UNA Europa, a network that is part of European Commission’s “European Universities Initiative”. In addition, UH is the only Finnish university to be a member of the League of European Research Universities, or LERU, an association of 23 leading European universities promoting the conditions and opportunities for basic research in Europe. Since the beginning of the current Erasmus+ period, UH has participated to over fifty Erasmus+ Key Action 2 projects – 31 between 2017 and 2019, a selection of which is listed below.
Team
- Local Coordinator: Dr. Kaisa Hahl
- Project members:
- Dr. Raili Hilden
Video: ConnEcTEd: Transnational Virtual Lecture Series – Finland
The Université Côte d’Azur Nice was officially established by decree October 23, 1965. However, its historic roots go back to the 17th century, with the famous Collegium Jurisconsultorum Niciensium, created in 1639 by the Princes of Savoy. The University of Nice now forms part of the Université Côte d’Azur (UCA), a group of establishments/consortium for higher education located on the French Riviera. The group includes the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, the CNRS and INRIA research agencies, the SKEMA and EDHEC Business Schools, the Nice University Hospital, the Observatory of the Côte d’Azur, and a College of six internationally recognized schools of art and design. The UCA is home to over 30,000 students at the undergraduate, masters, and PhD levels.
The school offers students high level research laboratories that cover all major academic disciplines. In January 2016, Université Côte d’Azur won a prestigious “IDEX” award from the French government for its UCAJEDI project, placing it among the top 10 world-class, comprehensive universities in France. In the scope of this project, two units are of particular importance: the ESPE, faculty of Education in the French sense, as well as the LINE lab: The LINE (Laboratoire d’Innovation et Numérique pour l’Education) is a new research lab at Université Côte d’Azur (UCA) in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and pedagogical innovation. Creative use of technologies and pedagogical innovation are at the core topics (#fabLINE).
Team
- Local Coordinator: Dr. Cindy de Smet
- Project members:
- Dr. Christine Schmider
Video: ConnEcTEd: Transnational Virtual Lecture Series – France
The University of Zagreb (UNIZG) is the flagship educational institution in the country with 31 faculties, 3 art academies and various university centres and departments. As a comprehensive public Central European university, UNIZG offers education programmes in all scientific fields (arts, biomedicine, biotechnology, engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences) and a broad spectrum of courses at all study levels, from undergraduate to postgraduate, for more than 70,000 students. The University excels not only in teaching, but also in research, contributing over 50 percent to the annual research output of Croatia.
The Faculty of Teacher Education is one of the constituent units of the University of Zagreb and its faculty members are participating as partner team members within the proposed project. Zagreb is the oldest and biggest faculty for preschool and primary school teacher education in the Republic of Croatia (with around 1500 full-time and 500 part time students and 135 teachers). The basic activities of the Faculty are teacher education (in the broad sense of the word), scientific research and artistic work. The Faculty offers to its students a wide range and diversity of study programmes in the field of education: Early childhood and preschool education (Ba & MA level), Primary Teacher Eduacation (integrated BA & MA level) with modules (Educational Studies, Croatian Language, Informatics and Art) or with English / German language, Educational study programmes for acquiring teaching competences for subject teachers in secondary schools. The Faculty also offers programmes for acquiring teaching competences for teachers in vocational schools. At the postgraduate level, the Faculty of Teacher Education offers postgraduate specialist studies Lifelong Learning and Drama Education, as well as a doctoral program Life Long Learning and Educational Science. Besides the wide range of study programs in education, another advantage of the Faculty is the interdisciplinarity of its teaching staff (140 full time teaching staff members). The teaching staff field of expertise is directly linked to diversity and a wide scope of study programmes, which encompass various scientific and artistic areas – natural, biomedical and social sciences, humanities and art.
The Faculty of Teacher Education is a research oriented faculty. At the moment there are 4 large scale competitive scientific projects conducted at the faculty: two national projects (funded by the Croatian Science Foundation) and two international: one in the Horizon 2020 program and a bilateral Slovenian-Croatian project. In the last 3 years there were 26 small scale research projects conducted at the Faculty of Teacher Education, financially supported by the University of Zagreb. With its research activities, the Faculty has a significant role in creating and disseminating knowledge, especially in education and has strong and long time cooperation with over 20 teacher and preschool teacher institutions in Zagreb, Čakovec and Petrinja. The study programmes conducted at the Faculty are also based on educational outcomes and application of innovative teaching methods in order for students to become respectable experts in their fields of work. The Faculty of Teacher Education has rich experience in international projects and other types of international cooperation.
In the last years, from 2009 until 2013, the Faculty organized and conducted a joint international graduate university study programme Management and Counselling in European Education (University of Zagreb and University of Muenster). The Faculty of Teacher Education was a coordinator of two Tempus projects (CD-JEP-40109-2005, 159048-TEMPUS-1- 2009-1-DE- TEMPUS-JPCR) and participated as a partner in one LLP Comenius project (526813-LLp-1-MT- COMENIUS-CMP) as well as two Erasmus + KA2 projects (2014-1-UK01- KA204-000081; 574076- EPP-1-206-1-BA-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). Currently the Faculty is coordinator of one Erasmus + KA2 project (2018-1-HR01-KA201-047499). The Faculty of Teacher Education has a strong activity in international mobility of both students and teachers. The mobility is based on over 30 Erasmus+ and other types of bilateral agreements.
Many of the researchers from the Faculty are national experts in various fields and they act as consultants for the Ministry of Science and Education, Agency for Teacher Training, and National Center for External Evaluation in Education. At the national and international level, the Faculty is especially distinguished by its research in the field of early language learning and teaching.
Team
- Local Coordinator: Prof. VLATKA DOMOVIĆ
- Project members:
- Dr. LIDIJA CVIKIĆ
- Dr. ŽELJKA KNEŽEVIĆ
The University of Turku (UTU), Finland’s second largest multidisciplinary university, is an internationally competitive research-led university whose operation is based on high-level research. The UTU is recognized for the quality of research, teaching, and excellent support services. As one of the leading universities in Finland, the University of Turku offers study and research opportunities in seven faculties and five independent units. In the international QS ranking, the University of Turku is among the top 300 universities and is ranked third best university in Finland (QS Ranking 2018). The University of Turku, whose roots reach as far as to the Royal Academy of Turku in the 1650s, was established in 1920. Today, the University of Turku has almost 20,000 students and 3,176 staff members (9.7% international; 58.7% female). External funding covers 37.6% of the total funding of 259.8 million euros.
The University of Turku is active in international cooperation. It is a member of the Coimbra Group, a network of prestigious universities in Europe. Over 1,500 international students from over 100 countries study annually in the University of Turku. In June 2013, the European Commission awarded the University of Turku the right to use the HR Excellence in Research logo. The logo is a token of the University’s commitment to continuous development of the position and working conditions of researchers along the guidelines set forth in the European Charter for Researchers.
UTU in Framework programmes
The University of Turku has participated in the framework programmes since the second framework programme. In Horizon 2020, the University of Turku has so far secured 44 projects including 5 ERC projects and 11 Marie Curie projects (4 IF, 6 ITN, and 1 NIGHT). UTU coordinates 3 consortiums and is a partner in 25 consortia. In the 7th framework (FP7), funding for UTU amounted to over 31 million euros with 88 projects of which UTU coordinated 10. Within the 6th Framework Programme (FP6), the University of Turku participated in 48 projects.
UTU Faculty of Education and Department of Teacher Education
Research on learning and education is one of the areas of strength in research at the University of Turku. The Faculty of Education provides high-quality education which has attracted worldwide attention. The Faculty of Education was established in 1974, and it is one of the seven faculties of the University of Turku. In 2017, the Faculty of Education was in the top 200 of the QS World University Rankings field-specific comparison. The Faculty consists of two departments, the Department of Education and the Department of Teacher Education. It has over 2,000 students and 380 employees on two campuses. Department of Teacher Education is responsible for educating teachers from preschool till university level. There are also two training schools in the Department responsible for practical training.
Research at the Faculty is concentrated around two nationally and internationally distinguished Research Centres CELE (Centre for lifelong learning) and CERLI (Centre for learning and instruction). High-level research at the Faculty of Education is internationally well-known and has its scope on the whole life-span. The wide, diverse and multidisciplinary research focuses, among others, on the change of education policy and the effects in education systems, the change in learning environments and long-term learning processes as well as on overcoming learning difficulties. There is also high-level expertise on subjects didactics such as science and math. Future learning in school and outside school and children and youth are at the center of the research. The research findings benefit teachers, families and decision makers both nationally and internationally. The graduates work in the field of education and schooling, contributing to the well-being of the surrounding society. The departments and research units have developed wide international networks through their collaborative projects.
The proposed project is in line with the expertise of the UTU team which has high-level expertise in research, subject didactics and development of practical teacher training such as student selection and integrating methodological courses and teaching practice, subject teacher training and in-service teacher training. The UTU team consists of experienced researchers and physic didactic lecturers who are used to work in multidisciplinary and international context.
Team
- Local coordinator: Prof. Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann
- Project members:
- Dr. Tuike Liskala
- Dr. Teija Koskela
Founded in 1457, the University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) is one of the oldest German universities and is now one of the nation’s leading research and teaching institutions, evidenced inter alia by its membership in the League of European Research Universities (LERU). It actively fosters interdisciplinary research, and it is one of the few universities offering world class research environments in the classical as well as in the modern disciplines. Dedicated to defining and pioneering new research areas, the university actively promotes international exchange, and its central location in Europe and proximity to Switzerland and France additionally supports its internationality. With 11 faculties, 18 scientific centres and a staff number of close to 7000, the university of Freiburg attracts approximately 25,000 learners, which include students stemming from Germany as well as from over 120 other countries.
Besides, also The Freiburg School of Education FACE will be an associated partner in the project. As a joint scientific institution of the University of Freiburg (ALU), the Freiburg University of Education (PHFR) and the Freiburg University of Music the School of Education FACE is in a unique position to support the participating institutions administratively. Ever since its foundation, the Freiburg School of Education has had a strong focus on the two main themes of ‘coherence’ and ‘professional orientation’ in teacher education and has in the last five years very successfully managed several important joint research projects in the field of teacher education for the Freiburg universities (see above: institutional information). With a strong focus on the improvement of teacher education in Freiburg, the School of Education has managed in recent years to join forces with other important stakeholders who are in charge of the improvement of teacher education (e.g. universities, schools, school authorities, teacher in-service training etc.) and has therefore already contributed significantly to strengthening the horizontal and vertical coherence of teacher education in Freiburg.
Since 2014, the University of Freiburg (ALU) and the Freiburg University of Education (PHFR) have closely cooperated in the field of teacher education. This cooperation resulted in the foundation of the Freiburg School of Education (FACE), which aims to improve teacher education onsite by strengthening the coherence and professional orientation of teacher education both structurally, conceptually and regarding collaborations with all relevant stakeholders. The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures has been involved in this cooperation since the very beginning, particulary in the field of curricular forms and the development of research-based and profession-oriented course designs. Its Teacher Education Program is offered for the Romance languages French, Spanisch und Italian.
Team
- Local coordinator: Dr. Frank Reiser
- Project members:
- Dr. Melanie Koch-Fröhlich
- Dr. Anna Rosen
Project products and outcomes
The results and impacts of ConnEcTEd are manifold, with teacher educators, student teachers, teachers, and other stakeholders of TE as target groups. The creation of transnational coherence through a jointly developed vision of European TE, coherent teaching-learning scenarios, the use of innovative practices in the digital era, and a mutual recognition of qualifications and learning outcomes, will broaden the perspective taken on coherence so far and enable more physical and virtual mobility for students and staff. The developed products will be freely available for participating universities, and, after the completion of the project, disseminated to the public.
The intellectual outputs (IO) comprise the following:
To lay a conceptual foundation, the aim of IO 1 was to generate a common understanding of how coherence in teacher education is achieved in the countries of the participating universities. The first task was to develop a framework for mapping different contexts, notions, concepts and understandings of coherence in teacher education in the participating countries and institutions.
This framework (IO 1 – MappingCoherence_GuideQuest_Classification) was created based on a thorough literature review of academic studies on coherence in teacher education, as well as official policy documents and recommendations provided by international organisations, such as the EU and the OECD. National partners used the framework to collect relevant data related to coherence in teacher education at a national and local level. In depth analyses of national and local/institutional strategies and concepts by partners based on the common analytical framework resulted in the creation of National Reports for every country. These reports were final used to create an International Report on Coherence in European Teacher Education. The international outlines the convergences and divergences across national systems and HE institutions in Europe and highlight the tensions and challenges in implementing coherence in TE in different locations. The international report will be published in the Edited Volume.
ConnEcTEd’s theoretical/conceptual and empirical results were/are disseminated through the project website and various other “channels”.
- Joint publication: (Soon available) The ConnEcTEd project team conceptualized, created, and submitted an Edited Volume on “Coherence in European Teacher Education” at the German Springer Verlag. The volume is to be published by the end of 2023 as OER and will be available on the ConnEcTEd webpage. All partners from the project contributed to the edited volume in various chapters, thus representing the underlying IO work.
- Conference participation: Project members disseminated results from work carried out in and across ConnEcTEd work packages at 13 scientific conferences in Croatia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Northern Ireland, and Sweden during the course of the project. A selection of slides is available on the website.
- Multiplier events: In line with the project application, multiplier events were carried out in each country towards the end of the project. Also, dissemination inside and outside one’s institutions took place and will continue on an informal basis. By doing so, the research on transnational coherence can be successfully disseminated and allows for a further usage and possible adoption of the project teams’ ideas and innovations. Target groups of these dissemination activities will be scientific researchers and staff, university rectorates, educators in TE, school administration, schools/teachers and TE administration.
The following files are provided for download:
- Symposium: ConnEcTEd (Coherence in European Teacher Education) – Von Grenzen und Kohärenzen in der europäischen Fremdsprachenlehrerbildung
The slides represent a summary of some chosen IO1 and IO5/6 work (Mapping results, OERs) and were, together with an overall overview of the ConnEcTEd project, presented at German conference for FLTE, in Freiburg in Sept 2023. - Exploring the coherence of teacher education programmes via a mixed methods approach
The slides represent a summary of the mapping results of “IO1_International Report/Scientific Publication_Preprint” and were presented at the biggest European conference for educational topics, the EARLI conference, in Thessaloniki, in 2023. A short conceptual grounding, an introduction into the methodology in IO1 and an overview of the results including pedagogical implications were given to the audience. - Coherence as a perspective for developing teacher education
Presentations for the conference EDUSPRING 7.4.2022 - OPISKELIJOIDEN KOKEMA KOHERENSSI OPETTAJANKOULUTUKSESSA
Presentations for the conference kasvatustieteenpäivät 24.11.2022 - KOHERENSSI NÄKÖKULMANA OPETTAJANKOULUTUKSEN KEHITTÄMISEEN
Presentations for the conferences Teachers’ professional development conference 17.8.2022
The objective of IO 3 was to establish a transnational collection of good practice samples of coherence-oriented teacher education in partner institutions. The basis for establishment of existing coherence oriented FLTE was the conceptualization of coherence that was agreed on in the work of IO1.
The lead partners of this intellectual output were the University of Zagreb and University of Freiburg. The University of Zagreb has established a working plan on which all the partners agreed on. After that the Zagreb Team provided a questionnaire to all the partners collecting information about the format in which the examples of good practice will be provided. The technical issues were discussed with University of Freiburg that took the responsibility of the shared workspace (Teams) and the website of the project.
University of Zagreb provided a digital template of the presentation of existing good practice on coherence, accompanied by a developed supporting document in which relevant information on the example have been provided. Based on the provided template all the other partners provided their examples of existing good practice on coherence in the field of horizontal coherence (between content knowledge/language practice, pedagogical content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and/or the so called “university studies – school practice”) or vertical coherence (in the course of study programmes, subsequent modules, different phases of teacher education).
All the provided examples were integrated in the digital showcase established on the project website by the University of Freiburg. Information provided by the partners in the supporting document for each example were used to describe the example in the digital showcase on the website and to inform future users about the content that each example is providing. The examples in the digital showcase provide an insight into different conceptions of coherence in foreign language teacher education at different European universities and allow a further usage of those conceptions and possible adoption into other FLTE contexts.
Partners have provided the following existing examples of good practice on coherence at their Universities:
Freiburg (ALU/PH): Integrative Tandem-Master Seminar (CK-PCK)
Subject-specific science in dialogue with subject didactics: Co-taught Tandem Seminars in Freiburg’s M.Ed. Program
Helsinki: Getting acquainted with school…
Getting Acquainted with School – example of coherence in the Subject Teacher Education programme at the University of Helsinki
Nice: Eva Freud – a 20th century destiny
A transversale school collaboration project as example of good practice
Oslo: Micro-Teaching
Micro-teaching: trying out teaching on campus
Turku: Research in Teacher Education
Research workshop in class teacher education
Zagreb: Interlinking theory and practice
Interlinking theory and practice – example of coherence at the Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb
Based on the theoretical work of IO 1, a review worked as a basis for designing a questionnaire on students’ perceptions of coherence. The main aspects of the questionnaire were conceptual and structural coherence as well as the theory and practice gap with horizontal and vertical dimensions. The questionnaire comprised five main factors, like opportunity to enact practice, coherence between theory and practice, opportunity to analyze practice, vision of good learning, and self-efficacy (see Mikkilä-Erdmann et al, in press). Due to this structure of the questionnaire, aspects can be expanded or omitted and thus adapted to the different country’s circumstances.
The first version of the questionnaire was designed in English and was piloted among preservice teacher and teacher educators via interview method. After this small-scale interview study revision was made. The last version of the questionnaire was created in English and was sent to all partners in March 2022. Thus, the local surveys started in Spring 2022. The results from Finland and Croatia were analyzed and published accordingly (see Doetjes et al, in press). The questionnaire has shown potential for measuring coherence during initial teacher education among preservice teachers and the importance of further national and comparative studies to support the development of European teacher education.
Results of the developmental and data collection process will be published in the Edited Volume.
These two IOs were organizationally joined very early on in the project, because a large overlap of needs and issues of both IOs became apparent, which made it seem advisable from the point of view of efficiency and coherence within the project to carry out discussions on these issues in joint meetings. Firstly, this intersection concerned the forms, content principles, legal aspects and dissemination of OERs as the key output of both IOs; moreover, we soon identified transversal topics that were equally relevant in projects of both IOs and were therefore addressed in joint thematic meetings, for example co-teaching, theory-practice links and enhancing students’ awareness of coherence.
Freiburg (1): Autobiographical writing in contemporary French literature
A dialogue between subject science and subject didactics
Freiburg (2): Subject sciences and subject didactics in dialogue
A task-based tandem seminar
Freiburg (3): Linguistics in Foreign Language Teacher Education
Detailed description and materials for a course on how to use and apply linguistic knowledge, methods, and tools to enhance analytical skills needed for foreign language teaching.
Helsinki
Assessment Tasks in a Language Education Assessment Course Unit
Nice
La vie d’Eva Freud en cours de Langue Vivante (Français)
Oslo
Working with literature in foreign language teacher education
Turku
Differentiation as a vehicle for inclusive education
Zagreb
Plurilingualism in school language education:
Team teaching as a tool for fostering program coherence
General Information on OERs
Everything you always wanted to know about Open Educational Resources (but were afraid to ask) by Robert Schuwer
The objective of IO 7 was to strengthen the internationalization of European Language Teacher Education Curricula through a collaborative design, piloting, and implementation of a transnational virtual lecture series. This virtual lecture series was to also increase “Internationalization at home”.
Transnational Virtual lecture Series I – General introductions to Foreign Language Teacher Education
The first part of the series is a set of videos dealing with the original topic of “Coherence in European Language Teacher Education”. The videos were general introductions or overviews of the school system and foreign language teacher education in each partner country/state. By watching the series of short videos (approx. 6-10 minutes), people interested in language teacher education will get an idea of how similar or dissimilar language teacher education is in the partner countries. The series includes videos from Helsinki, Nice, Oslo, Zagreb and Freiburg.
- Foreign Language Teacher Education in Freiburg, Germany
- Foreign Language Teacher Education in Helsinki, Finland
- Foreign Language Teacher Education in Nice, France
- Foreign Language Teacher Education in Oslo, Norway
- Foreign Language Teacher Education in Zagreb, Croatia
Transnational Virtual Lecture Series II – Digitalization in Teacher Education
The second part of the virtual lecture series is composed of recorded webinars on the topic of “Digital transformation in Foreign Language (Teacher) Education”. To add collaboration between the partners, we decided to organize the webinars between two or three partners. The end result was three recorded webinars. One was done in collaboration with Helsinki and Turku, one was with Nice and ALU Freiburg, and one was with Zagreb, Oslo and PH Freiburg.
- Digitalization in Teacher Education – Helsinki & Turku, Finland
- Digitalization in Teacher Education – Nice & Freiburg, France & Germany
- Digitalization in Teacher Education – Zagreb, Freiburg & Oslo, Croatia, Germany & Norway
Transnational Virtual Lecture Series III – 21st Century Competences in Foreign Language (Teacher) Education in Europe
The third and final part of the Transnational virtual lecture series is made of recorded podcast on the theme of transversal competences in European (Teacher Education). The part includes five podcasts with the following themes: multiliteracy (Helsinki), sharing value of the Republic (Nice), intercultural competence (Oslo), differentiation in foreign language teaching (Turku), and language anxiety and language aptitude (Zagreb).
In IO 8, we developed a framing paper containing a classification system that can be used to describe the development of a digital conceptual tool kit with tools and approaches for a coherent internationalization and/or transnational coherence orientation in European teacher education systems. It is combined with interactive, co-creative Communities of Practice that pilot and further develop it. To facilitate the communication, cooperation and co-creation of those CoP across borders, digital media come into play – as a vehicle and a topic. The following products make use of this framing document.
An introductory video about the FLTE education and the education system in Finland
General Introduction to Foreign Language (Teacher) Education in Finland
Co-create transnational materials
Guidelines and specifications for international collaboration on digital outputs
Enhancing coherence in teacher education through a European teacher perspective
International Webinar
Guidelines for planning curricula in teacher education to support coherence
Development of a digital toolkit to internationalize the curriculum
Organizing transnational co-creation online
Development of a digital toolkit to internationalize the curriculum
Project- and professionoriented etandems in Foreign Language Teacher Education
Development of a digital toolkit to internationalize the curriculum
Sharing, retrieving, reusing and adapting Open Educational Resources transnationally
Development of a digital toolkit to internationalize the curriculum
Tools for planning and implementing collaborative teaching
Development of a digital toolkit to internationalize the curriculum
Train the trainer: Program for designing and implementing Virtual Exchange
Development of a digital toolkit to internationalize the curriculum
OERs as a means of internationalization
Everything you always wanted to know about Open Educational Resources (but were afraid to ask)
News and events
Events: ConnEcTEd
Blog: ConnEcTEd

Reisebericht: ConnEcTEd Project Meeting in Zagreb
Ein zentrales Anliegen der School of Education FACE ist die Entwicklung kohärenter – also strukturell und inhaltlich sinnhaft zusammenhängender – Curricula oder Module im Rahmen des Lehramtsstudiums. Was liegt da in Zeiten der Globalisierung näher, als sich anzusehen, wie dieses Prinzip in anderen Staaten und Bildungssystemen umgesetzt wird? Im Rahmen des Projekts ConnEcTEd geschieht genau das. Im September dieses Jahres reiste eine Freiburger Delegation nach Zagreb, um sich dort gemeinsam mit Projektpartner*innen aus Oslo, Nizza, Helsinki und Zagreb in Präsenz zu diesem wichtigen Thema auszutauschen.

Ins Bächle „dappen“, oder nicht? Treffen des ConnEcTEd-Teams in Freiburg
After the first in-person-meeting in March in Oslo, the ConnEcTED-Team met for the second time in Freiburg im Breisgau at the end of May. In the „Green City“ on the western edge of the Black Forest, right on the border to Switzerland and France, the project members reported on their work, discussed new tasks and further steps in the project, as well as forms of collaboration in different IOs.

Reisebericht: Das ConnEcTEd-Team in Oslo
Ein zentrales Anliegen der School of Education FACE ist die Entwicklung kohärenter – also strukturell und inhaltlich sinnhaft zusammenhängender – Curricula oder Module im Rahmen des Lehramtsstudiums. Was liegt da in Zeiten der Globalisierung näher, als sich anzusehen, wie dieses Prinzip in anderen Staaten und Bildungssystemen umgesetzt wird? Im Rahmen des Projekts ConnEcTEd geschieht genau das. Ende März dieses Jahres reiste eine Freiburger Delegation nach Oslo, um sich dort in Präsenz zu diesem wichtigen Thema auszutauschen.
Funding
This project receives funding from the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union (Strategic Partnerships, KA 203).
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