18 Secondary School teachers from Brazil attend a training program in Eskoriatza focused on cooperative learning
18 Secondary School teachers from Brazil attend a training program in Eskoriatza focused on cooperative learning
18 Secondary School teachers from Brazil attend a training program in Eskoriatza focused on cooperative learning
In addition to their training sessions, the teachers from the Brazilian state of Paraiba will visit different Basque educational institutions and companies.
Eighteen secondary school teachers from the Brazilian state of Paraiba who are participants in the Conexão Mundo program will be at Mondragon University from October 2 to 27. Thanks to the Conexão Mundo program, Brazilian Secondary Education teachers and Vocational Training teachers receive specific training in the Basque Country. The participants, who are now in Eskoriatza, are studying for the Expert Certification in Cooperative Education. This training completes the stays carried out last March by two other groups of teachers from different disciplines. There are three courses offered by the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences of Mondragon University within the Conexão Mundo program: Marketing and Communication; The Environment, Sustainability and Energy; and the Cooperative Education course that is being offered now.
A one-month stay in the Basque Country
Conexão Mundo is a training program offered online but, to complete the program, participants have the opportunity to spend a month in the Basque Country. Thus, the participants will have the opportunity, on the one hand, to learn about the cooperative situation in the Basque Country, and on the other, to analyze the innovation projects that they have designed, implemented and documented in their respective educational centers, as they are now able to move on to the activation phase of these projects. In addition, during their stay, they will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about different experiences of interest related to cooperativism and visit schools with different educational models.
The Expert Certification in Cooperative Education offers participants the opportunity to become familiar with, reflect on and implement some of the key aspects that characterize what we understand as cooperative learning, based on the analysis of various specific cooperative experiences and through a research-action process that will evolve for and out of the professional practice of the participants in the program.
The delegation includes not only the team of teachers from different towns and cities in the Brazilian state of Paraíba, but also Dayanna Correia Lins Tavares, representative of the Ministry of Education of that state and head of the Conexão Mundo program. The representative will be responsible for closing the program and for analyzing, together with the representatives from the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, the characteristics of this fourth year of the program.
Along with this training program focused on cooperative learning, teachers from the state of Paraiba have been trained in two other areas:
Expert Certification in Pedagogical Training for Vocational Training Teachers in Marketing and Communication. The participants in this training program have worked on the theoretical and practical foundations of educational innovation and will work on specific didactic-methodological strategies that can be applied in Vocational Training in the areas of marketing and communication. This course was developed in collaboration with the Faculty of Business Studies.
Expert Certification in Pedagogical Training for Vocational Training Teachers in Environment, Sustainability and Energy. The participants in this training program have acquired the theoretical and practical foundations of educational innovation, as well as specific didactic practices and methodologies that can be applied in Vocational Training in the areas of the environment, sustainability and energy. This course has enjoyed the invaluable participation of teachers from the Mondragon Higher Polytechnic School.