New mechanisms of partnership-based governance and standardization of vocational teacher education in Ukraine Erasmus Project

General information for the New mechanisms of partnership-based governance and standardization of vocational teacher education in Ukraine Erasmus Project

New mechanisms of partnership-based governance and standardization of vocational teacher education in Ukraine  Erasmus Project
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Project Title

New mechanisms of partnership-based governance and standardization of vocational teacher education in Ukraine

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

This project deals with governance in vocational teacher education (VTE). The professionalization of teachers working in the field of VET (vocational education and training) is considered to be more complex than in the general education system as here the relevance of teachers’ competences not only has an impact on learners (vocational students), but also on the quality of VET as such and its functionality for the employment sector. An overarching quality criterion is to ensure that expectations of vocational schools and the motivations and competences of future teachers can be aligned. This ‘matching problem’ is materialized by the ‘theory-practice gap’ as the ‘users’ of VTE qualifications, being the employers of future teachers, are normally not involved in setting up or at least influencing how teachers are trained and how whatever they learn at university can be linked with and applied to in the classroom. This one-sided institutional reality explains why teachers do not feel well prepared for their future occupational destination.PBG (partnership-based governance) is seen as an instrument to tackle this problem by including VET schools in activities such as curricula development or teaching methodology, and it even could mean establishing a governance system based on partnerships reaching beyond these two stakeholders. Since decentralisation is a major aspect of current Ukrainian VET policy, PBG in VTE fits into the political agenda, by questioning traditional roles of responsible institutions.The project aims at developing and piloting governance structures between the Ukrainian partner HEIs and regional VET schools. The focus is on overcoming the theory-practice gap between university education and teaching requirements in VET, and on setting up governance in a new, i.e. partnership-based manner between relevant institutions in VTE. The project aims at creating awareness for a modern VTE system in Ukraine, and at raising the status of teaching profession.

Project Website

http://pagoste.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 937492 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ & Country: DE

Project Partners

  • INSTITUTE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE
  • SOUTH UKRAINIAN NATIONAL PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER K.D.USHYNSKY
  • NATIONAL TRANSPORT UNIVERSITY
  • UKRAINIAN ENGINEERING PEDAGOGICS ACADEMY
  • MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF UKRAINE
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE
  • WIRTSCHAFTSUNIVERSITAT WIEN