Towards an approach to professional training for educators in contemporary Europe: an innovative response for new generations, to new challenges Erasmus Project

Project Title

Towards an approach to professional training for educators in contemporary Europe: an innovative response for new generations, to new challenges

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 : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

From 2017 to 2020, the EducEurope Partnership brought together 21 academics, administrative staff and education professionals from 4 countries (France, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom):
– Université Paris 8 (coordinator): 6 academics and 2 administrative staff from the International Relations Department
– Università Milano-Bicocca: 4 academics
– University of Luxembourg: 1 academic, 1 administrative assistant
– University College of London: 2 academics
– University of Paris-Nanterre: 3 academics
– Cooperativa Duepuntiacapo, Milan: 1 director
– Valdocco Association: Valdocco Argenteuil, Valdocco Lyon and Valdocco Training: 1 general manager + 3 school directors.
– Ecole Nationale pour adultes , Luxembourg: 2 successive assistant directors
Around 100 students and 124 health and education professionals (France, Luxembourg, Italy, United Kingdom) have also been involved at certain stages.
Context and theme of the Partnership:
This trilingual partnership (French, Italian, English) was born from shared observations during the 3 years preceding the project that the Partnership brought together under the theme of the “education crisis” to explore some contemporary issues of education and transmission:
1) Thinking on a transnational scale about the manifestations of this multiform crisis, which is singularized by the respective cultures, histories and educational policies, and the ways to designate them in the different languages
2) Identify the points of convergence by considering the crisis as an inherent dimension of education/training (socio-cognitive and subjective conflict of learning, conflict of transmission that links and cuts between generations) ; pay attention to the clinical dimensions of the observed phenomena to address the “crisis” for the educator, at the crossroads of different fields of practice.

Goals:
1) Reflection on “transnational metaskills” enabling educators to identify in/through transnational otherness a meta-level of analysis of their practices
2) Design and experiment a training process whose contents and forms aim to support the professional drop-out/drop-in phenomena of educators.
3) Consider this joint experiment as a step towards the medium-term creation of a European training course or European Master.

Stages of implementation:
1) Creating Collaborative and Dissemination Tools (2018-19):
– Document storage and collaborative work space (Google Drive)
– EducEurope website
2) Sharing our experiences of the education crisis through 4 meetings -workshops associated with visits – with a collection of practical stories, analysis of situations with our professional partners (Paris, London, Milan in 2018; Luxembourg in 2019), leading to production:
– of a synthesis document (2019) on the socio-historical dimensions of the multidimensional concept of the “education crisis” and a document on the state of Italian educational institutions;
– a conceptual repository of shared concepts that illuminate the education process in crisis situations.
3) Creation of 4 virtual classes (2019-20) covering the processes selected among the concepts previously identified from the creation of 4 transnational thematic groups within the Partnership:
– design and audiovisual recording of virtual classrooms;
– collaboration with groups of students and/or education professionals: in the form of feedback on the knowledge offered by the Partnership and in the form of contributions of content based on the knowledge of their practices.
4) Creation of the Training Module (2020) and posting on the EducEurope website:
– de-rushing/mounting clips;
– Articulated construction of the inputs of each virtual class to identify stable benchmarks in ways of thinking and acting in crisis situations;

Outcomes and impact
– Development of the European perspective in university practices, in the work of socio-educational teams, and for associate students. Various collaborations and productions (co-signed scientific publications; symposium in colloquia; dialogues between institutions; supervision of joint dissertations, doctoral projects, etc). already attest to the sustainibility of this fallout.
– Use of the training module as a teaching aid for the training (face-to-face or distance-learning) of 40 students and/or professionals. At the end of 2020, the supporting university has created within its model of Master of Education Sciences a course that continues the experimentation of EducEurope supports over the next 5 years and maintains the partnership dynamic.
– Experimentation with an open consultation on the website with an interactive device (chat).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 288070 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITE PARIS 8 VINCENNES SAINT-DENIS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
• DUEPUNTIACAPO COOPERATIVA SOCIALE ONLUS
• UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA
• UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
• UNIVERSITE PARIS NANTERRE
• LE VALDOCCO
• Ecole nationale pour adultes