Internacionalização em contexto escolar: Potenciar a diversidade e internacionalização na formação de professores

Abstract

This chapter aims to present and discuss the Continuing Training Unit (UFC) Internationalisation at home: Promoting diversity and internationalisation in teacher training, which results from the participation of its pedagogical team in the ERASMUS+ DITE project - Diverse Internationalisation of Teacher Education (2021-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000031129). It is aimed at promoting the dimensions of inclusion and internationalisation in Initial Teacher Education (ITE), aiming to provide trainees with the ability to work from international positions and towards welcoming diversity. This UFC understands internationalisation in Teacher Education (FP) as an intentional process that aims to ensure the quality of teaching and research in students, technicians, and staff of the institutions where it develops, which will extend as a significant social contribution. In this sense, it becomes relevant to provide students of ITE courses with the ability to work from international positions, today referred to as global and multicultural. Therefore, the work of this UFC is based on a strong interdisciplinary approach, inviting students from the different Organic Units (UO) of the University of Porto to deepen their competences to work in increasingly plural educational contexts and societies. The encouragement of interdisciplinary work is reflected in the composition of the teaching team itself, which brings together trainers from the five UO that ensure ITE at the University of Porto.