Atee Spring Conference 2024, over 360 researchers expected in Bergamo

Bergamo. From the 29 May to June 1st L’University of Bergamo will host the Ate Spring Conference 2024promoted by the Center for Teaching Quality, Teaching Innovation and Learning (Cqiia) of UniBg, by the Department of Human and Social Sciences and by the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (Atheists).

The international conference will have as its theme “Teacher education research in Europe: trends, challenges, practices, and perspectives” and will see presence in parallel sessions beyond 360 researchers coming from more than 40 countries from all over the world (mainly Europeans, but also from United States, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, India And Australia).

The conference aims to discuss the main and most recent developments in international research in the field of initial and continuous training of teachers of all levels, through the presentation of historical, pedagogical, didactic, empirical and experimental studies. One of the objectives is to share theories, studies, case studies and best practices in place in different countries and to be able to discuss them in order to put them to good use, promoting teaching and learning training paths marked by principles of sustainability, inclusion and equity.

“This event places our University increasingly at the center of the national and international debate on educational research – explains the rector Sergio Cavalieri –. In particular, the topic of initial teacher training is very close to our hearts and the new 60 CFU courses will soon start to achieve teaching qualifications which we will promote together with the University of Brescia. Our university will thus be able to increasingly be a real hub for research and training of future teachers, from nursery school to primary school up to lower secondary school. A further possibility not only for research, but also for training for our students and for serving the needs of the educational institutions in our area”.

“Teachers represent an increasingly important figure in our society, called to respond to the educational challenges of our time – they add Francesco Magni And Nicole Bianquin, professors of the University of Bergamo and promoters of the event -. It is therefore important to enhance their cultural, social and educational role, starting from their initial and ongoing training. From this perspective, the contribution of pedagogical research and the comparison with researchers from all over the world is fundamental”.

Atee Spring Conference 2024 will open with an inaugural plenary session, on the morning of Thursday 30 May at 9.30 in the Aula Magna of the S. Agostino headquarters, which will see institutional greetings from Sergio Cavalieri, Rector of the University of Bergamo ; Anna Maria Falzoni, Director of CQIIA; Pierluigi Malavasi, President of SIPED (Italian Society of Pedagogy) and Michiel Heijnen, President of Atee.

The first two will follow keynote speech rely on David SteinerExecutive Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy of Johns Hopkins University who will speak with a talk entitled: “A Retreat from Knowledge? The Strange Condition of Education in the United States”.

Then it will be the turn of Maria Teresa TattoProfessor of Comparative Education al Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and Honorary Research Fellow atUniversity of OxfordDepartment of Education, who will give a talk entitled: “Making the Case for the Comparative Self-Study of Teacher Education [and Teaching]”.

The third will close the conference on Saturday 1st June keynote speech Of Cecilia AzorínUnescp Chair on Education for Social Justice ofUniversity of Murciawith a report entitled: “Weaving networks for inclusion”.