Building Quality Education and Sustainable Future in Finnish-Brazilian Teacher Education

Authors

• Carolina Corado da Silva Oliveira Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte
• Essi Ryymin Häme University of Applied Sciences

Keywords:

transnational education, vocational teacher education, sustainable development goals

Abstract

The Finnish-Brazilian VET Teachers for the Future programme was organised at Häme (HAMK) and Tampere Universities of Ap- plied Sciences (TAMK) in 2014–2016. The goal of the programme was to coach the participants to collaboratively rethink and design education to respond better to their on-going regional and national challenges in Brazil. MSc Carolina Corado graduated from the pilot programme in 2015 and has since developed student-centered pedagogical practices having sustainability, student engagement and serving the community as her leading principles. Her latest project “#disque108” concentrates on SDG 5 “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. The pedagogical approach of the project is based on the VET Teachers for the Future programme. Transnational training initiatives like the VET Teachers for the Future may advance the knowledge and the competence for sustainable development implementation by supporting teachers to proactively develop their pedagogical practices and by strengthening the school-community collaboration.