CHE
The project aims at providing a comparative European survey of 33 countries of the European Higher Education Area on structures, concepts and standards of assessment, tutorial systems and teacher education for (trainee) teachers of school subjects “History”, “Civic and/or Citizenship Education”, “Politics”, “Social Studies” and “Cultural Studies”.
The study group also aims at investigating the conditions for and practices of developing key-skills and competencies of trainee teachers, which, in the near future, are expected themselves to promote European citizenship, respect for human rights and democracy, the rule of law, tolerance and respect for other people and cultures.
It also aims at identifying concepts following the framework’ of the European Council and the European Commission ‘for European cooperation in education and training (ET 2020). On the basis of this investigation and systematic research, the study group aims at contributing to the quality improvement of curricula and training concepts for teacher education in the subjects of political education of the future European citizens.
Therefore, researchers from the participating countries answer a standardized questionnaire and deal with qualitative questions within thematic working groups. In addition, the results of the questionnaire are compared with relevant international studies to obtain an overall picture of the European situation.
The project is funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme KA1 (Studies and Comparative Research). Due to the support of the ERSTE Foundation and the Ministery of Education (BMUKK) the countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Russian Federation could be integrated to the project.
The following 40 institutions of 31 countries participated at the project:
- All-Ukrainian Association of Teachers of History and Social Studies “NOVA DOBA” (Ukraine)
- Bergen University College (Norway)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, CIEE Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
- Constantine the Philosopher University (Slovakia)
- Council of Europe, University of Belgrad (Serbia)
- EUROCLIO - European Association of History Educators
- Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbooks Research
- History Teachers Association of Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
- Manchester Metropolitan University (United Kingdom)
- Ministère de l’éducation nationale (France)
- Ministry of Education Science and Technology (Kosovo)
- Montenegro
- Museu Nacoional de Arqueologia (Portugal)
- Museum of Recent History (Slovenia)
- Pedagogical Institute Cyprus (Cyprus)
- Pedagogical University of Heidelberg (Germany)
- Russian Academy of Education (Russian Federation)
- School for Teacher Education FHNW (Switzerland)
- Sofia University (Bulgaria)
- State Pedagogical University “Ion Creanga” (Moldova)
- Stavropol State University (Russian Federation)
- Umea University (Sweden)
- Universitá La Sapienza Roma (Italy)
- University of Ankara (Turkey)
- University of Augsburg (Germany)
- University of Bucharest (Romania)
- University of Graz (Austria)
- University of Malta (Malta)
- University of Siegen (Germany)
- University of Tartu (Estonia)
- University of Tirana (Albania)
- University of Turku (Finland)
- University of Valladolid (Spain)
- University of Vienna (Austria)
- University of Zagreb (Croatia)
- Uniwersytet Wrocławski (Poland)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
- World Citizen Educational Consulting (Hungary)