Flagler College
The partnership between the University of Würzburg and St. Augustine College in Florida offers students and faculty a wide range of opportunities for international exchange. It creates space for personal encounters, academic collaboration, and intercultural learning within a transatlantic context. Through reciprocal visits, joint events, and cooperative projects, a vibrant dialogue has developed between two academic cultures. The cooperation strengthens international networks, broadens disciplinary perspectives, and fosters sustainable connections across borders.
At the same time, the partnership provides valuable insights into different educational systems and generates new impulses for teaching and learning. Students benefit from international experiences, while faculty members are able to further develop their research and teaching through ongoing exchange.
For the Institute of Foreign Language Education in particular, the collaboration offers the opportunity to reflect on approaches to English language teaching from an international comparative perspective and to explore innovative teaching concepts through dialogue. In this way, the connection between academic expertise, classroom practice, and global perspectives is purposefully reinforced and further strengthened through the regular exchange of guest speakers and professors.
Next summer research assistant Felicia Folmers will be participating in the faculty exchange.
Visit Flagler College's website and find further information on our's here!
News
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Cheryl McCarthy and Dr. Edwidge Crevecoeur Bryant to GoTEd+ Week, where they will present their lecture, “The Significant Role of Title I Schools in Educating Children in the United States."
For more information about GoTEd+ Week, please visit here.
In the winter term 2022/23 we welcomed Prof. Dr. Edwidge Crevecoeur-Bryant to Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg as the Flagler Guest Professor for Winter Term 2022/2023. An expert in bilingual/bicultural education and literacy, Professor Bryant will be offering courses on “Cross-Cultural Education” and “Education of African Americans and Haitians in the U.S. and Haiti.” She will be working closely with the American Studies Department, where she will be based during her stay, as well as with the Department for TEFL Methodology (Englische Fachdidaktik).
Professional Biography
Edwidge Crevecoeur-Bryant is a Professor and Chair of the Education Department at Flagler College, Florida in St. Augustine and Tallahassee, where she has also served as the Coordinator of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). Professor Bryant earned a Master of Arts in Educational Administration and a Doctorate in Applied Linguistics with an emphasis in Bilingual/Bicultural Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She is the co-author of two important books for ESOL teaching: Educating English Learners: What Every Classroom Teacher Needs to Know (Harvard Education Press 2018) and Show, Tell, Build: 20 Key Instructional Tools and Techniques for English Learners (Harvard Education Press 2014). Professor Bryant is Haitian and is the General Director of a literacy center in Haiti – OAKA (Oganizasyon Agrikilti Kominote AlfaTeknik; translation: Organization for Agriculture, Community, and Literacy). She has also co-authored five bilingual English-Haitian Kreyòl dictionaries. Additionally, she is a Consultant for the Palm Beach County School District and regularly presents on Haitian history and language. In that capacity, Professor Bryant assisted in writing and implementing the African and African American History Infusion Curriculum in Florida. Further, she is the Past President of the Florida Association for Bilingual Educators. For her work and dedication to the field of technology, education, and literacy of Haitian adults, in 2009, she was inducted into the Adult and Community Educators Hall of Fame.
You can read more about Professor Bryant’s literacy work in Haiti here:
Edwidge Bryant, Flagler College
Our partnership with Flagler College enables sudent exchanges.
Check out some reports from students!
Von Florida nach Hawaii, EinBLICK
US-Geschichte in Florida erlebt, EinBLICK
Discovering Würzburg: A Flagler Student's Journey Abroad, Flagler College News
The new Flagler – JMU Transatlantic Junior Fellow Program offers students in English-Speaking Cultures and other Masters programs the opportunity to work closely with a Flagler faculty mentor. Our first Flagler – JMU Transatlantic Junior Fellow is Nina Wintermeyer. Nina studies in the English-Speaking Masters of Arts (MA) program at the JMU English & American Studies Department and is collaborating with Flagler Professor of Political Science Lorna Bracewell in the areas of Feminist Studies and Theory as well as Transgender Rights during her 2022 exchange semester in St. Augustine. Additionally, students with a Bachelor degree/ major in History can apply for the Master program in Cultural Landscapes - Landesgeschichten im transatlantischen Vergleich offered in Regional History.
