Syllabus
Main themes of lectures and seminars:
1. Subject and methods of comparative education
2. Educational outcomes of students in a comparative perspective
3. Introducing changes to schools following changes in legislation (eg, support for inclusive practices)
4. Ensuring fair access to education
5. Global development education and training for sustainable development
6. Changes in co-operation with parents and other actors in education
7. Working with refugee families
8. Working with students with socio-cultural disadvantages
9. Collaboration of teachers with doctors, special educators, psychologists
10. Collaboration of elementary schools and preschool facilities
Annotation
Seminars will focus on selected global trends and pressing topics (e.g. global education and education for sustainable development, implementation of formative assessment, education for citizenship). Students will be introduced to current educational concepts (e.g. global citizenship, global competence), teaching strategies and methods (e.g. philosophy for children - p4c) In home preparation for the seminars and in the seminars themselves, students search for and work with current data sources, discuss the challenges to which education must respond, and devise strategies and practices to respond to these changes in the school and classroom.
Course content will be updated to reflect current societal changes.