Critical Spanish Language Teacher Education

This project aims at encouraging an innovative, critical approach in European language teacher education with the fundamentals of Critical Pedagogy and Critical Discourse Analysis at its core. Thu...

This project aims at encouraging an innovative, critical approach in European language teacher education with the fundamentals of Critical Pedagogy and Critical Discourse Analysis at its core. Thus, the main aim of this project is to better equip Spanish language teaching professionals with the knowledge, skills and tools with which they can face the challenges of our dynamic, diverse and intercultural classrooms and prepare their (future) students to be critical citizens.

The project management, delivery and monitoring is based on three key points: – a management plan – a quality plan – a dissemination plan In addition, regular transnational project meetings, testing phases and the collaborative design of teacher training activities and project presentations to disseminate the project results and reach more participants are an integral part of the project.

The project targets the development of a set of innovative digital materials for their implementation in the context of Spanish teacher education university programmes: - an interactive concept map and glossary that visually explains key concepts as well as the relationships among them, - an e-Handbook of Activities for Critical Spanish Language Education, - a series of video-based digital learning modules which illustrate “critical practices” in the teaching of Spanish a foreign language