The high rate of rurality and population ageing are two of the principal characteristics that make Galicia a region with certain peculiarities that require actions to promote an active role for its senior citizens. Through a service-learning project embedded within a broader framework of arts-based research, student teachers designed an artistic…

A holistic distribution of leadership, where the entire community is committed both to learning and the organisation's development, is considered an important factor in educational success. Initial teacher education should contribute towards building teachers' identities as leaders (teacher-leaders). Our research examines how teaching competences…

Initial teacher education programmes provide student teachers with the desired competences to develop themselves as teachers. Although a generic framework for teaching competences is available covering all school subjects in Spain, the initial teacher education programmes curriculum does not specify which competences secondary mathematics student…