The Faculty of Education will be hosting the Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE) network International Conference 'Teacher Education from a Global Perspective'. This conference will be held at the Valletta Campus from 19 to 21 May 2016.
The theme chosen for the 2016 TEPE conference is centred on the need for lifelong opportunities for all teachers to learn and to grow. It also explores the notion that all teachers should receive adequate education and training throughout the different phases of their preparation and professional development and underlines the need for teachers to seek and make use of learning opportunities within their schools and communities. This conference will give opportunities to academics and educators to share experience, practice and research findings on teacher education throughout the world, giving rise to different perspectives about how to offer teachers the chance to learn.
Presentations will be carried out on the lines of the following sub-themes:
- Initial teacher education in Europe and in a global world
- Teachers in schools as learning organisations in Europe and from a global perspective
- Teachers and teacher education for multicultural settings
- Theory, policy and practice in teacher education in Europe and from a global perspective
- Reflections on teacher education at Masters level.
The keynote speakers will be Prof. Linda Darling Hammond, Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, Prof. Maria Assunção Flores, University of Minho, Portugal and Prof. Kenneth Wain, Faculty of Education, University of Malta.