Board Meeting
On 17 - 19 November 2013
the extended Board meeting of Association of Rectors of Pedagogical Universities in Europe held
in Vilnius (Lithuania), at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences.
The event was attended by rectors from 18 universities of nine European countries. Among the participants were Valery Zhovtenko - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Lithuania; Anatoly Tolstoukhov - Advisor, Commissioner of the Prime Minister of Ukraine; Antanas Vinkus - Commissioner of the Prime Minister of Lithuania; Oksana Dobrovolskaya - Director of the Kiev Department of Education and Science, Youth and Sports; Gintaras Alfonsas Petronis - Director of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of Vilnius.
The meeting included a review of priorities of the implementation of Pedagogical Constitution of Europe, in particular the development of common programs in core subjects of Masters training of future teachers.
Association Board approved international workshops for the development of applications to Master programs for future teachers.
The main objective of the working groups is to implement pedagogical constitutional values into educational process of European area. Next step will be the preparation of manuals ("books to read" for students) on such subjects as "Philosophy", "Pedagogy", "European history", "Ecology", "Democracy Principles", "Pedagogical ethics" and others.
Controversial issues will be submitted by the methodology of pedagogical discourse and tolerance, with respect to peoples and cultures, their traditions and national characteristics.