Intercultural Teacher Education

The Intercultural Teacher Education (ITE) is a five-year teacher education program that focuses on cultural diversity and global issues in education and gives the student competencies for international tasks in the field of education. The program provides a qualification as a primary teacher in Finland. The language in the program is English. The flexibility of the program enables specialization in a variety of tasks in the field of teaching and education. Similar to the other teacher education programs, this program includes studies in the educational sciences and in the subjects taught in schools. It also includes teaching practices, some of which can be taken abroad. The program includes a compulsory period of at least three months abroad, during which time the student will be studying.The degree of Bachelor of Arts (Education) in the Intercultural Teacher Education program offers basic competencies for the prospective educational professional and provides the basis for the Master’s studies. The degree provides the basic Prerequisites for the internalization of a problem-based and Analytical Philosophy of teaching and education. The degree is oriented towards primary teacher education, so the program focuses on the special issues related to the teaching and education of pupils studying in grades 0-6 of basic education. The education also provides competencies for international educational tasks. The values underlying the degree center on research as its foundation are: practical familiarity, active citizenship, ethical and Aesthetic sensitivity and capacity for pedagogical and didactic thinking and action.