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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.
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Cooperative Highlights
As part of the DAAD model project “Global Teacher Education plus” (GoTEd+), the Chair of Subject Didactics – Modern Foreign Languages has been able to further strengthen its international collaboration. Since 2022, Flagler College in Florida has been a key partner institution of the Chair, offering a wide range of opportunities for exchange, research, and practice-oriented teacher education.
A particular highlight was the visiting professorship held by Prof. Dr. Maria Eisenmann at Flagler College. Her teaching and research activities there strengthened professional networking in the field of English language pedagogy and provided important impetus for the further development of internationally comparable training standards.
During Education Week, there was also an in-depth exchange with colleagues Cheryl McCarthy and Edwidge Bryant from Flagler College, who had already provided valuable insights into teacher education in the United States through their presentations in Würzburg. Particularly impressive was the close integration of theory, pedagogy, and practical school training, which prepares students in Florida for their future careers at an early stage.
The collaboration with Flagler College underscores the growing international focus of the department and opens up new opportunities for joint projects as well as for study and practical placements for teacher education students, which will improve the quality of teacher education in an international context in the long term. During Education Week, there was also an intensive exchange with colleagues Cheryl McCarthy and Edwidge Bryant from Flagler College, who had already provided important insights into teacher education in the U.S. through their presentations in Würzburg. Particularly impressive was the close integration of theory, pedagogy, and practical school training, which prepares students in Florida early on for their future careers.
The partnership with Flagler College underscores the department’s growing international focus and opens up new opportunities for joint projects as well as for study and practical placements for teacher education students, which will improve the quality of teacher education in an international context in the long term.
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."
The 5th GoTEd+ Week, organized by the Chair of Subject Didactics – Modern Foreign Languages and the Professional School of Education at the University of Würzburg, brought together teacher educators from numerous countries around the world—from Israel to Ghana to the United States—in late February 2026. Under the motto “Teachers together for change,” the event focused on international exchange regarding sustainable teacher education.
Prof. Dr. Cheryl McCarthy and Prof. Dr. Edwidge Bryant from Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, provided valuable insights into English language teaching. They offered insights into the work at so-called Title I schools in the U.S. and presented successful mentoring programs that provide long-term support to disadvantaged students. The exchange with Flagler College highlights the growing international network of the Chair of Subject Didactics – Modern Foreign Languages and opens up new perspectives for joint projects in research and teaching.
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
Exchange Opportunities for Students
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.
