Teachers for a Sustainable Future: Global Education and Teacher Training in Visegrad Countries.

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This webinar will present the research results of the international project "Teachers for a Sustainable Future," which examines the role of higher education institutions in integrating Global Education (GE), with a particular emphasis on teacher education. The session will include several studies that explore various dimensions of how GE is incorporated into teacher training. Researchers from Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia will share their findings on the opportunities and challenges of integrating GE into teacher education programs in the Visegrad countries. They will also discuss the motivational factors encouraging academics to include GE in teacher training, along with good practices identified at the universities studied.  

• Find out more about the research project here
   

Contributors

Hungary

• Judit Saád. Judit is a project manager, and a research assistant at Eötvös Loránd University. She has substantial experience in managing cross-cultural projects and a strong interest in sustainability. Throughout her career, Judit has been involved in numerous international projects focusing on cultural heritage preservation, socialisation goals and practices concerning competition, higher education innovation and the integration of sustainability in teacher education.
• Ferenc Mónus. Ferenc is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Debrecen, and has previously taught at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the University of Nyíregyháza. Ferenc’s current work is mainly in Environmental Education and in Sustainability related topics. His research interest includes methods and efficacy of Environmental Education, Sustainability Transition of Universities and Societies, as well as the role of Eco-Emotions in psychological resilience and the ecological crisis mitigation.

Poland

• Magdalena Kuleta-Hulboj. Magdalena is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests focus on global, intercultural and sustainability education. She specialises in qualitative research methods. Magdalena has authored and coedited 3 monographs on global and intercultural education and published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 10 chapters in edited books, in Poland and internationally. She also serves as an expert consultant for Grupa Zagranica, a platform of 61 Polish NGOs involved in international development cooperation, democracy support, humanitarian aid and global education, and has collaborated with an international research consortium on the RESPONSIVE project, funded under the Horizon Europe program. She is a member of the Polish Educational Research Association and a member of Advisory Board of ANGEL.

Slovakia

• Kristína Rankovová is a PhD. student at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences (Comenius University in Bratislava). Her doctoral thesis focuses on the applicability of critical and postcolonial perspectives to the global education in Slovakia. Other research interests include positionality of Slovakia and Central Europe in the development and global education discourses, discourse and metaphors studies, and education for sustainable development.

Format

This event, to be held at 13:00 GMT on the 12 March 2025, will last around 90 minutes and will be hosted via Zoom.  Please register via Zoom using the button below. This session will be Chaired by an ANGEL Advisory Board member.

The ANGEL Webinar Series

This event is part of a series of online events run by the Academic Network for Global Education & Learning. The series is aimed at Global Education professionals, as well as anyone with an interest in research in the fields of Development Education, Global Citizenship Education, Human Rights Education, Education for Sustainable Development, Education for Peace, and Intercultural Education. This event, along with the other activities of the ANGEL network, is co-funded by the European Union.*

* The establishment of this network and website has been made possible with funding support from the European Commission. The activities and publications of the network are the responsibilities of the organisers, the Development Education Research Centre, and can in no way be seen as reflecting the views of the European Commission.