Empowering teacher education

Empowering teacher education

The R&D Community Empowering Teacher Education aims to create a shared understanding of the changing education landscape in state education and teacher education through the lens of teacher educators. 

In our RDC, we offer a platform for teacher educators who want to engage in collegial exchange about their motifs and lived experiences in teacher education. Becoming aware of one’s professional values has great potential to foster the experience of meaning in our daily work.
 
We are currently experiencing substantial pressure on the quality, freedom, and positive impacts of education in Europe. The growing demand for competitiveness driven by economic – instead of professional and educational – interests is often experienced as burden by researchers, teacher educators, policy makers, administrators, teachers, and in the end our learners. At the same time, we lack a strong public discourse about the value and many benefits of professional, well administered, and empowering educational systems. 
 
Through our research we want to contribute to a shared understanding of current dynamics within practices and different contexts of teacher education in Europe and the lived experiences of teacher educators.
 

Main actions

  • Workshop and working sessions at the ATEE Annual conference 2023 (“From professional responsibility to meaning: Why we are teacher educators”)

  • Participatory data sessions to explore teacher educators’ motifs, lived experiences, and ideas for an empowering teacher education within ATEE and beyond.

  • Collaborative transnational research projects on teacher educators’ motifs, lived experiences, and ideas for an empowering teacher education within ATEE and beyond.

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Ronny Smet

Karel de Grote Hogeschool Antwerpen

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Manuela Schlick

Second Chair

Our projects

MISSION STATEMENT ON
Empowering TEACHER EDUCATION 

This R&D Community will develop a mission statement on European Teacher Education policy. By doing so, it aims to shape the united voice of professional Teacher Educators. We will work with European, national and regional stakeholders in policy development and implementation.

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