European Doctorate in Teacher Education – EDiTE

Monika Kovacs, PhDELTE - Budapest

Faculty of Education and Psychology

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Az EDiTE projektLLP projekt

• Lifelong Learning Programme – Erasmus Multilateral Project

• EACEA Grant Agreement No. 2012-3214/001-001

• 2012 October – 2014 September

EDiTE consortium Erasmus Multilateral Project

• University of Innsbruck • Eötvös Loránd University - Budapest • University of Lower Silesia – Wroclaw • University of Lisbon • University of Bucharest

Advisory board: European Network on Teacher Education Policies (ENTEP)

Consultations with EUA, ENTEP, ATEE (Association for Teacher Education in Europe)

Aim of the project

• The aim is to develop a joint degree program in doctorate education with a focus not only on a comprehensive learning programme (advanced studies) but also an intensive research programme that creates a general framework for its students to realise their autonomous individual research.

A European project

It aims to develop a shared understanding on European teacher education highlighting common identity and common values of European teachers as well as to promote opportunities of teacher mobility among the member countries.

Joint degree program• A joint program resulting in a joint degree (delivery of the

curriculum in an inter-university collaboration)• A mobility phase is part of the EDiTE Programme. The

doctoral candidates will conduct part of their studies at a partner university of the EDiTE consortium.

• The mobility phase and individual student research is supported by a supervisory system with two supervisors. The first supervisor should be from the home university of the student, the second supervisor should be from the partner university where the doctoral candidate studies during the mobility phase of the programme.

The curriculum

A PhD for Professionals: to do high-level expert and professional work requiring the use of research methods

3 years (6 semesters): 180 ECTS1) Advanced pedagogical studies (60 ECTS)2) Research intensive modul (120 ECTS) The curriculum moduls content was published in

May 2013: http://www.edite.eu/files/del_2.2_curriculum_modules_content_130926_APA_final.pdf

The research modul

• The aim of the EDiTE research program is to enhance the involvement of EDiTE doctoral students, as part of their learning in Module 2, in concrete research activities connected with ongoing research projects and with existing research orientations in the partner institutions. The program is therefore based on existing research activities and orientations in the participating partner institutions.

Thematic focuses1. Teacher education:

– National teacher education policies– The professional development of teachers– The development of practical skills and competences in the teaching

profession– Curriculum of teacher education– Assuring and managing quality in teacher education– The history of teacher education and teacher policies– Innovation in teacher education– Institutional frameworks of teacher education– Teacher as learners, professional learning

communities

2. The teaching profession and the work of teachers – The professional competences of teachers– The knowledge basis of the teaching profession– The social position of the teaching profession– Teacher professionalism– The work of teachers

3. European policies related with teacher education and the teaching profession– Current teacher policies and teacher education policies in the EU and the member

states– The history of teacher education and teacher policies in the EU

4. Human resource management and development in schools and HEIs – School level human resource management and development practices– HE institution level knowledge production and knowledge sharing, communities of

practices– School level knowledge production and knowledge sharing, communities of

practices– Research on the understandings, motivations and behavior of actors and on

change them– The development of HRM capacities of school-leaders and the impact of their work– Developing academics as educators

5. Teaching and learning– Curriculum development– Development of adult educators– Diversity– Teaching and learning innovations– The impact of teaching practices on learning– The management of the learning process by teachers– Teacher/student relationship– Understanding of learning

6. Other themes – Exploring research trends on teachers and teacher education– Characteristics and impacts of the socio-cultural environment of

education from the perspective of teaching and teachers– Developments and existing practices in the education system

and their impacts from the perspective of teaching and teachers

– Historical aspects of the teaching profession– Understanding the mechanisms of educational policy from the

perspective of teaching and teachers– Research on the understandings, motivations and behavior of

actors influencing teaching and teachers

EDiTE’s blended learning strategy• BL will increase the level of active learning strategies,

peer-to-peer learning strategies, and learner centred strategies used making the programme more attractive but also more responsive to individual needs;

• BL will act as one of the key factors influencing the growth of distributed learning environments thus enhancing the mobility of ideas, interaction;

• BL will provide an opportunity for reaching a large, European dispersed audience in a short period of time with consistent, semi-personal content delivery being thus increased cost effective.

Conclusion• Because of the project a national and an international

consultation on teacher education doctorate has been started

• Being a member of this project has had an effect on the already excisting programs

• Dissemination of good examples might effect other doctoral programmes

• More research is needed how to intergrate the research modul into doctoral education (costs, effectiveness, personal requirements, evaluation)

Conclusion• Blended learning strategies: another level of a common

European education- cheaper than „real” mobility, it can reach more students, more sustainable (expert meetings vs student mobility)- makes specializataion possible: the best expert can teach all the students of the program (vs the „same” course everywhere)- real partnership between experts (one team instead of competition)- real partnership between students (working together on projects)- EDiTE: good modell of partnership development

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Contact• Halász Gábor

halaszg@helka.iif.hu • Szőllősi Tímea

szollosi.timea@ppk.elte.hu

• EDiTE ELTE website: http://nevelestudomany.phd.elte.hu/konferenciak/edite/

• Project leaderUniv.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Michael Schratz

Department for Teacher Education and School ResearchDean of School of EducationLeopold-Franzens-Universität InnsbruckInnrain 52A-6020 Innsbruck

Tel.: +43 (0) 512 507-4650Fax: +43 (0) 512 507-2815

michael.schratz@uibk.ac.at

• www.edite.eu

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