Get Ready for Global Teaching!
The “Get Ready for Global Teaching!” project aims to offer future teachers learning opportunities to further develop their cultural and linguistic sensitivity and, through direct international exchange, to reflect on key issues and challenges from a global perspective, as called for in the concept of Global Citizenship Education.
The goal is to train teachers to design educational processes in linguistically and culturally diverse groups that are inclusive and sensitive to diversity and discrimination. International exchange and networking contribute to the further development of these skills through direct and personal experience.
The project is implemented in cooperation with seven international partner universities until December 2029.
'Get Ready for Global Teaching!' institutionalises and expands our international cooperations. We focus in particular on the issues of global inequality, colonial patterns of thought and post-migrant societies.Prof. Dr. Dorothee Kohl-Dietrich
Vice President for Academic and International Affairs
Goals
Cooperations between our university and the partner universities involved are institutionalised and expanded for our teacher education programmes for primary school and secondary school.
Our university offers internationalised teacher education programmes for both primary and secondary school that count with institutionalised intercultural learning opportunities.
Participating teacher students have broadened their intercultural, language and practical skills for their future teaching.
The project contributes to the visibility of the internationalisation of teacher education on a regional and global level.
Project Activities
Various formats are planned over the course of the project in which students and lecturers from our university and the participating partner universities in Ghana, Israel, Cameroon, Laos, Norway, the UK, and the USA will engage in exchange. These include summer and winter schools, blended mobilities, and an international networking conference, as well as the promotion of study visits and guest lectureships. Thematically, these formats are aligned with the three profile areas of our university that are compatible with the concept of Global Citizenship Education: Educational processes in the Digital World, Education in a democratic society, and STEM in a culture of sustainability.
The exchange with partners in the Global North focuses on reflecting the challenges post-migrant societies face with regard to school education and social participation. The exchange with partners in the Global South is intended to open up a broader perspective: students are encouraged to engage with global inequality and critically question colonial, Western-influenced hegemonic patterns of thought in everyday life, knowledge transfer, and school contexts.
The project involves activities in three areas:
- Revision of the recognition processes for stays abroad in teacher education programmes
- Alignment of module handbooks with those of our partner universities
- Development of digitally supported study programmes with partner universities
- Advice and information services for teacher students on stays abroad outside the Erasmus+ programme
- International summer/winter schools at our university
- Guest lectureships by lecturers from our partner universities
- Scholarships for subject-related study visits and theses at partner universities for teacher students from our university
- Scholarships for subject-related study visits to our university for teacher students from partner universities in the Global South
- Networking meetings with partner universities
- International conference “Global Teaching” at our university (2027)
- Open access publication of project results
International Project Partners
Stakeholders at our University
At our university, the project is implemented under the responsibility of the Vice President's Office for Academic and International Affairs and the International Office.
Prof. Dr. Dorothee Kohl-Dietrich
Simone Brandt, M.A.
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Beratung zu:
Auslandsstudium, Dozierendenmobilität, Personalmobilität zu Fortbildungszwecken
Mirjam Hitzelberger
nach individueller Vereinbarung
Contact
nach individueller Vereinbarung
Funding
The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2029, as part of the DAAD funding programme “Lehramt.international 2.0: Internationalisation of Teacher Training at German Universities” (Module A, Model Projects at German Universities).
