JUDITH HARFORDWEDNESDAY 25TH AUGUST 2010

JOINT WORKSHOP NW 10 AND NW 27ECER 2010 , UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

Quality Assurance and Teacher Education

in Europe: Challenges and Expectations

Impetus for Colloquium

ECER, 2009Dialogue between members of Networks 10

and 22 surrounding need for greater synergyDiscussion amongst Board of TEPE

surrounding need to focus in on Q.A. in European T.E

EERA’s commitment to provide funding for key strategic research projects

Gathering of members of above Networks joined by diversity of stakeholder nationally and internationally

Colloquium Objectives

Promote a research agenda in quality assurance in teacher education at European level

Build capacity through the presence of conference delegates from countries under-represented in EERA, notably Croatia, Slovenia and Poland

Build a field at the European level to support a sustained research agenda on European education

Publish an edited book on the proceedings of the colloquium which will inform the quality assurance debate on teacher education at European level

Objectives (cont.)

Assist EERA in establishing an authoritative voice in the teacher education quality assurance debate at European level

Represent the first substantive Network activity between annual conferences for members of both Networks 10 and 27.

Provide a networking forum for members of the Teacher Education Research and Didactics – Learning and Teaching Networks of EERA to meet with members of the Teacher Education Policy in Europe Network

Speakers

Professor Hannele Niemi, Professor of Education, University of Helsinki, Finland ‘Promoting research on quality in teacher education with a career long

perspective and learning outcomes’ Professor Brian Hudson, School of Education, Social Work and Community

Education, University of Dundee, Scotland ‘Quality assurance in teacher education through the lens of didactics -

learning and teaching’ Professor John Coolahan, former Professor of Education at the National

University of Ireland, Maynooth and OECD and World Bank education consultant ‘The development of quality assurance as a feature of teacher education

policy in Ireland’ Dr Bjorn Astrand, Dean, School of Education, Umea University, Sweden

‘The impact of the development of standards, competences and common procedures for quality assurance in European teacher education on quality’

Professor Pavel Zgaga, University of Ljubljana Faculty of Education, Slovenia Diversity and quality assurance: Issues and challenges’

Outputs

Teacher Education Policy in Europe Network annual conference, University of Tallinn, 30 September – 2 October, Developing Quality Cultures in Teacher Education: Expanding horizons in relation to quality assurance http://eduko.archimedes.ee/tepe2010/registration

Harford, J. and Hudson, B. (2011) Quality Assurance and European Teacher Education Policy. Oxford: Peter Lang

http://www.ucd.ie/education/qualityassuranceandeuropeanteachereducationcolloquium/