Internationalization of Universities and Teacher Preparation for the 21^stCentury

• Authors: Viera Kurincová , Anna Klimentová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The living in 21st century’s global world has a great impact on various aspects of life in interdependent society. Teachers and educators are expected to be well prepared to teach in classrooms characterized by diversity in culture, language, abilities and other characteristics of pupils. The other challenge for teachers is to support development of new competences of pupils, competences, which enable them to understand global world and to be active participants in new living conditions. The task of teacher training institutions is to find the ways how to prepare globally competent teachers, as their training as well as a real educational practice has always been connected to the existing socio-historical context. The authors of presented paper pointed out some issues linked to the global competence of teachers and the requirements of globally competent students. The paper is focused on the importance of internationalization of future teachers’ preparation. Based on collected empirical data, the authors present possible ways, outcomes and benefits of international study stays of students (prospective teachers) for their professional growth, teachers’ competences and personal development.

Keywords

EN

teacher training; prospective teachers; globally competent teacher; internationalization of study; international study stays

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Journal on Language, Literature and Culture in Education
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 127-140

Dates

published

2016-11-01

online

2016-11-19

Contributors

author

Viera Kurincová

• Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra,

author

Anna Klimentová

• Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/llce-2016-0014