Comparison of the Curricula of the Bachelor´s Degree in Teaching at Austrian University Colleges of Teacher Education

Abstract

The Bachelor's Degree in Teaching Qualification is a study to obtain a teaching qualification in secondary vocational education. It is a Bachelor of Education (abbrev. BEd) has a length of four semesters. At all four university colleges, where this degree can be acquired, it is organized as part-time study on Fridays and Saturdays. It also includes asynchronous distance learning. The students of these study teach already in parallel at a given vocational high school or college as lecturers, they have a completed university degree of 240 to 300 ECTS credits.

The BEd can be acquired at the University Colleges of Teacher Education Upper Austria, of Styria, of Vienna and of Tyrol. These University Colleges are part of alliances, “Verbünde”, according to Austrian law, where two or more University Colleges are combined (geographically) to teach the same curriculum. Here the curricula of these BEd studies will be compared. The goals of the studies, the qualifications achieved by completing the studies, and the Study Entry and Orientation phase will be looked at. The differences are in the courses for the STEOP, the Pedagogical-Practical Studies PPS and the length and content of the Bachelor thesis.