This year, from 2 till 7 December, a six-day training was conducted at Canterbury Christ Church University, in the UK, within the Special Mobility Strand meeting (SMS) of the CURE project, under the ERASMUS+ program. The topic of the training was – Innovative Pedagogy and Auto/biographical Narrative for Active Citizenship, Sustainability and Democratic Sensitivity.
Kutaisi University representatives – Mariam Kilanava and Nino Tortladze, with other colleagues from Israeli Universities, attended the training sessions and the international conference held on the last day of the visit, on Auto/biographical Narrative as a Research and Teaching Method. The conference theme was identical to the training sessions’ and was organized in advance by the organizers – Mr. Alan Bainbridge and Mr. Linden West, the professors of the host University.
Within the visit, Mariam Kilanava conducted a joint lecture with Mr. Alan Bainbridge for the CCCU students of the Career Planning and Monitoring course.
At the end of the training sessions, the trainees were asked to represent a PPP on the topic of Auto/biographical Narrative and its perspectives in professional lives and the representatives of Kutaisi University did it with excellence. The presentation topic was – Auto/biographical Narrative at three educational levels – Primary, Higher education and CPD (Continuing Professional Development).
This year, in order to enrich the innovative teaching methods in Kutaisi University, it is planned to share the experience got in the UK by the representatives of Kutaisi University to the academic and invited personnel.
It should be underlined, that Kutaisi University has been actively cooperating with the leading European Universities and is open for sharing the innovative teaching methodologies with its institutional partners.
Before the above-mentioned visit, Kutaisi University, within the CURE project, had sent its representatives – Dean of the Kutaisi University Faculty of Social Sciences – Teona Grigolashvili to Linz and the lecturer of the same faculty – Georgi Chumburidze to Salzburg, Austria. In previous years similar visits have been made to Tallinn (Estonia) and Krakow (Poland) as well.