Derby Students Help Teachers Find Their European Voices
5 March 2013
Teachers at the conference will discuss ways to make their teaching more European
We are delighted to be part of such an ambitious project. As well as attending this event we will be working with our European counterparts and partner schools around Derby and Stoke-on-Trent over the next few years to develop our thinking and practice.
”White, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies
An Education lecturer from the University of Derby and his students will represent the UK at a conference in Brussels to discuss how teaching can become more European in flavour.
The Derby group, which will be led by Jon White, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, will meet with counterparts from ten other countries including Italy, Turkey, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium, to tackle a range of issues at the first ever Voice of European Teachers' Network conference on Wednesday March 20.
Jon, along with BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies degree students, Daphne Blackwood and Hannah Jones, Masters in Education student Natasha Young, and the Director of Belgrave St Bartholomew's Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, Andrew Warren, will travel together to the conference in Belgium.
There they will discuss how issues such as European citizenship, language, identity, cultural heritage, historical and cultural diversity, can be embedded through new teacher education and teaching materials.
Jon said: "We are delighted to be part of such an ambitious project. As well as attending this event we will be working with our European counterparts and partner schools around Derby and Stoke-on-Trent over the next few years to develop our thinking and practice.
"We hope to find ways that education professionals can truly become more European in their teaching."
The University of Derby team secured funding from the European Commission to host the second conference in the series in October 2014, at which they will welcome the 10 countries to the East Midlands.
For more information on the VOICES conference visit www.european-teachers.eu/conferences/conferences-brussels
For more on Early Childhood Studies at the University of Derby visit www.derby.ac.uk/education
