The Italian way to the europeanisation of teacher education : an analysis of reforms and the ongoing experience of digital transformation

Perla, Loredana (author), Vinci, Viviana (author), Agrati, Laura Sara (author)

The Covid-19 emergency compelled teachers to reshape their teaching approach. Teachers were able to better recognise technologies as a means of interaction and digital transformation as a driver for professional growth. The present paper addresses the Europeanisation of teacher education and professionalisation. This process, which recognises the specific histories and political cultures of national training systems while offering common categories of analysis, nowadays welcomes the challenge of the general digital transition. The aim of the paper is to focus on how the process of Europeanisation of teacher education in Italy is taking place. Two paths are proposed. The first is the presentation of a documentary review study of the latest ministerial reforms that interpret the European recommendations. The second is a description of the DidaSco continuous professional development programme at the University of Bari, which implements European recommendations and national directives through appropriate technological innovations, which have been made even more available since the pandemic. What emerges is the representation of a possible ‘Italian way’ to the Europeanisation of teacher training, as is being achieved through the opportunities of digital transformation.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Europeanisation, teacher education, digital transformation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 147-174
• Numbering: Vol. 15, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179246
• UDC: 37.011.3-051
• ISSN on article: 2232-2647
• DOI: 10.26529/cepsj.1714
• COBISS.SI-ID: 197709059

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• Publication date in RUL: 09.02.2026

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• Title: CEPS Journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal = revija Centra za študij edukacijskih strategij
• Publisher: Pedagoška fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-2647
• COBISS.SI-ID: 254029824

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Italijanska pot k evropeizaciji izobraževanja učiteljev : analiza reform in trenutnih izkušenj z digitalno transformacijo

Abstract

Izredne razmere med pandemijo covida-19 so učitelje prisilile, da so preoblikovali svoj pristop k poučevanju. Učitelji so dobili priložnost bolje prepoznati tehnologije kot sredstvo interakcije in digitalno transformacijo kot gonilo poklicne rasti. Ta članek obravnava evropeizacijo izobraževanja in profesionalizacijo učiteljev. Ta proces, ki priznava specifične zgodovine in politične kulture nacionalnih sistemov usposabljanja, hkrati pa ponuja skupne kategorije analize, danes pozdravlja izziv splošnega digitalnega prehoda. Namen prispevka se osrediniti na to, kako poteka proces evropeizacije izobraževanja učiteljev v Italiji. Predlagani sta dve poti. Prva je predstavitev dokumentarne pregledne študije najnovejših ministrskih reform, ki razlagajo evropska priporočila, druga pa je opis programa stalnega strokovnega izpopolnjevanja DidaSco na Univerzi v Bariju, ki izvaja evropska priporočila in nacionalne direktive z ustreznimi tehnološkimi inovacijami, ki so po pandemiji postale še dostopnejše. Iz tega je razviden prikaz mogoče »italijanske poti« k evropeizaciji usposabljanja učiteljev, ki se uresničuje z možnostmi digitalne transformacije.

• Keywords: evropeizacija, izobraževanje učiteljev, digitalna transformacija