Peer Exchange Network in Teacher Education (PEER-Net):  Joint modules of universities of teacher education in Albania, Egypt, Kosovo, Switzerland and Tunisia

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PEER-Net offers a new form of international exchange for universities of teacher education: modules taught by lecturers from a Swiss and a foreign university and attended jointly by their students.

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Profile

Project leadership
Samir Boulos (PHZH)
Project team
Sabrina Marruncheddu Krause (PHZH), Natalie Geiger (PHZH)
Organisational unit
W-IB-UTL (Zentrum für Unterricht und transkulturelles Lernen)
Project phase
Completed (1.1.2022 – 31.12.2024)
Project type
Service project
Funding
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation

Description

The Peer Exchange Network in Teacher Education (PEER-Net) project pursues the goal of better integrating teacher training colleges into the globalised world of higher education. To this end, PEER-Net offers an innovative form of international exchange that is new to universities of teacher education: modules taught by lecturers from a Swiss and a foreign university and attended jointly by students from both universities.

This exchange promotes transcultural learning among lecturers, teachers in further education, and students; they not only learn about other academic traditions and cultures but also discuss how they can improve their teaching.

The PEER-Net project aims to empower prospective or current teachers to recognise and take advantage of diversity in schools as an opportunity. It is also about empowering students to be able to exist in a global, networked society.

The project is implemented in Egypt, Albania, Kosovo, Tunisia and Switzerland. PEER-Net is a project of the Department for International Projects in Education.

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Contact

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+41 43 305 63 15