Teacher Education in Europe : mapping the landscape and looking the future : proceedings

Education professionals, like everybody else, tend to repeat the patterns they have experienced. Teachers tend to teach the way they have been taught. The methodology of training that the Pestalozzi programme adopts wants to offer the opportunity to trainers and teachers to experience and to practise a participative and interactive, democratic form of peer-training in an international and intercultural setting. “Methodology is not neutral” and it is hard to imagine how you could teach the competences, skills and attitudes needed to sustain our complex democratic societies in any other way than through the practice of collaborative work and knowledge construction