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The Teaching Europe Podcast is a series of interviews on teacher education in Europe published by Symposion Network. Symposion Network is a network of approximately 17 teacher education institutions from Norway till Spain and from Ireland till Serbia. Each university selects an expert in a specific field for the podcast. The topic of series 1 is "inclusion" and how it is practiced in the various countries, series 2 is on "Learning Spaces" and series 3 is on "Teaching Difficult Topics".

  1. 5H AGO

    Teaching difficult topics 2 - with Christine Plaimauer

    Guest in the 2nd episode of the "Teaching Difficult Topics" series of the "Teaching Europe Podcast" is Christine Plaimauer, a sociologist and teacher trainer at Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich in Austria. Further materials and links: https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/fileadmin/Dateien/5_Publikationen/Praevention/Berichte/ErgebnisbroschuereKiGGS.pdf https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Gesundheitsmonitoring/Gesundheitsberichterstattung/GBEDownloadsJ/Focus/JHealthMonit_2024_01_Gesundheitliche_Ungleichheit.html  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11248271/  https://www.qua-lis.nrw.de/schulentwicklung-nrw/schulentwicklung/uebergreifende-themen/gendersensible-bildung/unterricht-0  https://on.orf.at/video/14215185/viva-la-vulva  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZYGnAEdqs  https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms

    28 min
  2. Teaching difficult topics, episode 1 - with Simon Brennan

    12/09/2025

    Teaching difficult topics, episode 1 - with Simon Brennan

    Our first guest of the new series 3 on "Teaching difficult topics" is Simon Brennan of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in Ireland. He lectures in philosophy of education and is conducting research on dialogical education and the challenges teachers face in an increasingly complex and demanding world.

    38 min

  3. 07/29/2025

    Special episode to the honour of Miquel Robert Ferrer

    Miquel for many years was one of the columns Symposion Network is standing on - for more then 15 years he was a driving force for internationalisation at the University of Barcelona and an important member of Symposion Network and since 7 years also in the Steering Team of the network. Miquel is starting his well deserved retirement and we still don't know what we will do without him. The "Teaching Europe Podcast" therefore devotes a special honoring episode to Miquel and wishes all the best for the coming years and many great hikes and maybe also visits at Symposion meetings. Miquel gives an overview of the major changes which have happened to European university internationalisation in the last decade and has a look into possible future developments.

    18 min
  4. The media lab at Volda University College, Norway

    03/22/2025

    The media lab at Volda University College, Norway

    Guests in episode 5 of the Learning Spaces Series of the Teaching Europe Podcast are Sindre Slettedal Sandbak and Synnøve Hedemann Amdam from Volda University College, Norway about the Media Lab which is included in the college library and the development of digital learning spaces in education.

    33 min

  5. 02/06/2025

    Episode 4 - with Gabi Steinmair from Austria

    Gabi Steinmair teaches at Pädagogische Hochschule Oberösterreich in Linz in the teacher training program for primary school teachers. She has worked as primary school teacher herself before and developed a "material based learning space" approach in which children can learn with especially prepared materials and a lot of indepence. Her special focus is reading and writing acquisition. This episode is recorded in "her teaching room", which she designed at PHOOE to work there with her students - check out https://www.symposionnetwork.com for photos.

    30 min

  6. 01/28/2025

    Episode 3 - Outdoor Learning Spaces in Jagodina, Serbia

    During a Symposion Network Steering Team planning meeting in Jagodina Serbia, this podcast was recorded about the outdoor learning spaces at the university which date back to the founder of the institution. Guests for the interview are Ivana Ćirković-Miladinović and Irena Golubović- Ilić. More information here soon!

    27 min

  7. 11/14/2024

    Episode 2 - about CoLiLab in Weingarten, Germany

    „The Cooperative Liberal Laboratory (CoLiLab)" is the pedagogical makerspace at the University of Education in Weingarten.

    32 min

  8. 10/02/2024

    Series 2 - Learning Spaces 1

    Series 2 of the "Teaching Europe Podcast" has the topic "Learning Spaces". As usual we speak with experts of Symposion Network member universities from all over Europe. Guests in episode 1 are Liz Curtis and Jo Vergunst from the University of Aberdeen they speak with Christian Kogler about "Voices of the future". They are part of the research project ‘Voices of the Future: Collaborating with children and young people to re-imagine treescapes’. It’s part of a wider UK programme of research into the future of UK treescapes – environments where trees play a significant role. Voices of the Future explores how children’s voices can be listened to and schools can integrate trees and woods into their learning practices.  For more information on Voices of the Future, please see: https://treescapes-voices.mmu.ac.uk/ Contact Liz and Jo via their webpages: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/elizabeth.curtis https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/j.vergunst

    34 min
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The Teaching Europe Podcast is a series of interviews on teacher education in Europe published by Symposion Network. Symposion Network is a network of approximately 17 teacher education institutions from Norway till Spain and from Ireland till Serbia. Each university selects an expert in a specific field for the podcast. The topic of series 1 is "inclusion" and how it is practiced in the various countries, series 2 is on "Learning Spaces" and series 3 is on "Teaching Difficult Topics".

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