ERIC Number: EJ1145329
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 16
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Research-Based Insights on Initial Teacher Education in Spain
European Journal of Teacher Education, v40 n3 p310-325 2017
This paper builds on two research projects on initial and in-service education of teachers, their professional experience, and the pathways they travelled to become teachers. The policy documents analysed and the teachers' professional histories, the micro-ethnographies and the discussion groups developed, allowed us to draw a broad picture of the development of the initial teacher education in Spain. Three fundamental stages were identified: (a) developmentalism and the last stage of Franco's dictatorship; (b) constructing democracy and (c) the implementation of the European Higher Education Area. Our research shows that the reform implemented in each period represented a clear intention to professionalise teachers' work and to move beyond the view of initial education as vocational training by transferring it to the university. Meant a move towards improving the relationship between theory, educational research and practice; and left a set of unfulfilled challenges.
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Education, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Social Systems, Authoritarianism, Educational Change, Higher Education, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Professional Education, Academic Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Education Curriculum, Elementary School Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Information Analyses
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain
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