Dear participants of the X International Forum on Teacher Education! I am delighted to welcome you to our event!
We are very pleased that our initiative to create a scientific platform for the exchange of best practices in teacher education, which began in 2015, proved to be in demand by the global scientific and pedagogical community. From year to year, the number and geography of IFTE participants has grown, and the problems of their reports have deepened, which has turned the Forum into a large research community linked by a common idea to make teacher education in the world more effective, qualitative and modern. And now the long-awaited jubilee Forum is just around the corner, the theme of which will be "Research Transformation of Teacher Education: Traditions as a Basis for Innovation".
The year 2024 is very significant for us, as IFTE is moving to a completely new level to match such a high-profile and honourable status of a jubilee forum. Therefore, we will present the main directions of IFTE-2024 in the framework of the next 4 conferences:
- Standardization of teacher education content in BRICS countries: challenges and solutions;
- Theory and practice of interdisciplinary research in teacher education;
- Risk-focused teacher education: prevention of destructive behavior, social and psychological threats in education;
- Ethnic and cultural factors in modern teacher education: regional, national and international experience.
On the eve of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, we discussed the issues of international cooperation and strengthening ties with our foreign colleagues, which prompted us to organise a conference at the forum aimed at developing cooperation in the field of teacher education with the BRICS countries.
In addition, we touched upon the interdisciplinary aspect of teacher education. In recent times, modern society demands from teachers not only highly specialised knowledge, but also comprehensive development. Therefore, we give both young and experienced professionals the opportunity to broaden their scientific outlook by using the knowledge and cognitive tools of different disciplines.
The Forum participants' research will enable us to compare the unique experience of different countries in transforming educational policy, the best university practices and teaching technologies, and identify international trends in teacher training for the coming years. We are all well aware of the task of steady progress and continuous improvement in response to new challenges of the time. Therefore, I wish the participants of IFTE-2024 productive work, exchange of scientific ideas and simple human dialogue, which we lack in today's digital world. In turn, our annual event will also be timed to coincide with the 220th anniversary of Kazan Federal University, which we will celebrate in 2024. We will do our best to warmly and welcomingly receive forum guests from all over the world.
We look forward to seeing you at Kazan Federal University on 29-31 May 2024!
IFTE-2024 President,
Roza Valeeva
Dear Colleagues!
We are pleased to announce that the IFTE-2024 program is available on the Forum website https://ifte.kpfu.ru/en/conference/.
Every year we improve our conference platform, supplement it with new ideas and formats, discuss the most topical issues in pedagogical science and practice. The list of outstanding Russian and foreign scientists, IFTE participants, is growing. Currently, the Forum, held in the walls of Kazan Federal University since 2015, is one of the world's largest specialised scientific platforms to discuss the professional training of teachers.
The key agenda of the Forum is "IFTE-2024: BRICS countries on the way to improving teacher training".
This focus of the Forum allows it to act as a kind of scientific bridge to the large-scale summit of the BRICS countries, which will be held in Kazan in October this year.
The total number of announced participants of the Forum is 1,022 people. The key speakers of IFTE-2024 are scientists from Russia, Brazil, India, China, South Africa, Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia. The Forum will be attended by 16 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Education, more than 60 heads of universities implementing teacher education programmes.
We are confident that your ideas, results of your research and pedagogical work presented at the Forum will strengthen scientific cooperation and contribute to improving the quality of teacher training in the world.
See you in Kazan!