Cooperation with Japanese University: Twelve teacher training students and one visit WWU's ZfL to get to know teacher training in Germany. © WWU - Kathrin Nolte
The aim of the partnership is the exchange of students and lecturers from both countries. "With the mutual visits we deepen the dialogue on questions of teacher training in Germany and Japan. This exchange is particularly exciting because Japan, as an industrial nation like Germany, has to master certain social and economic challenges, but in some cases it is taking different approaches," emphasizes Dr. Martin Jungwirth, administrative director of the ZfL. The Japanese group will, for example, visit WWU facilities, the Center for Practical Teacher Education, schools and a kindergarten.
The new cooperation is attributable to Tatsuya Ozeki from HUTE, who spent a year as a guest researcher at the Institute for Educational Sciences at WWU until March 2018. After a visit by representatives of the ZfL and the District Government of Münster to Japan last autumn, the two universities finally concluded the "Memorandum of Understanding". There are currently 13 further partnership agreements at WWU with Japanese universities and institutions.
The University Centre for Teacher Education
The University Centre for Teacher Education is an independent organisational unit of WWU. It is responsible for the interdisciplinary promotion of academic teacher training and for advising the Rectorate on all specialist issues in this field. The main areas of work are study counselling and coordination, practical phases as well as research, transfer and further education. Almost one in four of the 45.000 students at WWU study to become teachers - making University of Münster one of the largest teacher-training universities in Germany.
