scholarly journals Who changes the course of history? Historical agency in the narratives of Spanish pre-service primary teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Arias-Ferrer ◽  
Alejandro Egea-Vivancos

Brief narratives created by pre-service teachers on a primary education degree course at the University of Murcia (Spain) were analysed to identify the ways in which they presented historical agents in European and Spanish history. The main units of analysis were categorized by the type of agent introduced in each narrative (individual, collective and institutional), then by identifying agents as either active or passive, and finally by describing the characteristics of their actions in terms of reasons and causes/consequences. The results reveal an emphasis on individual agents and the persistence of a superficial historical master narrative that perpetuates a distorted image of history.

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 328
Author(s):  
Gloria Jové Monclus ◽  
Charly Ryan ◽  
Esther Betrián Villas

In this article we present a case study in initial education of teachers studying the Primary Education Degree of the University of Lleida. Students prepare a teaching plan for science content linked to community resources, and present it in English. The aim was the students experience "talking science" in English. We focus on the questions: What have we experienced doing this activity in English? Students refer to impotence and frustration at expressing themselves and their ideas in English. While the data shows that there was little focus on science content, they showed the value of the exercise in their development as teachers. They experience ‘otherness’ and connect this to their future roles as teachers in multi-lingual, multi-cultural classrooms. Preparing this case study shows the value of teacher educators reflecting on their practice.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucía Melero García ◽  
Antonio Hernández Fernández ◽  
Eufrasio Pérez Navío

This essay is aimed at analyzing the existing relationships between oncological problems and sport in future primary education teachers. This relationship was validated and confirmed by realizing a factorial analysis using an ad hoc-created Likert scale. To come up to certain conclusions, a non-experimental, descriptive, explanatory and correlational investigation process was carried out. The instrument used to collect the data have been made through Likert scale, which was validated in contents and with an excellent Cronbach’s alpha (0.952). The validity of construct was made with factorial analysis exploratory (KMO (0.722), Bartlett (0.000), determinant (3.266E−23)). Three different samples have been taken from 900 students (years 2017–2018–2019), being 896 subjects for research. Those persons were students from the fourth year of primary education degree at University of Jaen. The Kruskal–Wallis test allows us to keep the null hypothesis and make the P of Pearson. As a conclusion, we emphasize that there is a relationship between oncological problems and sport and future primary teachers should be informed about this relationship, as well as the importance of cancer and bones tumors and their relationship with sport, the media used to train in oncological problems may be less important.


Retos ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 194-199
Author(s):  
Marta Delicado Valverde ◽  
José Jesús Trujillo Vargas ◽  
Luisa María García Salas

La formación inicial de los maestros especialistas en Educación Física ha “sufrido” profundos cambios con las reformas educativas. Lo que debiera seguir siendo igual de relevante es la importancia que tiene el hecho de que sean los propios alumnos quienes valoren la calidad de su formación como docentes especialistas futuros en esta área. En este estudio, nos servimos del instrumento validado por Moreno y Conte (2001) para la Valoración y Capacitación sobre la Docencia en Educación Física (V.A.C.D.E.F.), que hemos pasado a 39 alumnos del Grado en Educación Primaria, que cursan la mención en Educación Física, de un Centro de la Universidad de Cádiz. Entre los hallazgos más importantes, hemos de destacar que los alumnos se sienten, a nivel general, capacitados para desempeñar la labor docente futura, están de acuerdo con los contenidos que se imparten en su formación, se encuentran interesados por los aspectos técnicos de los deportes y por la especialidad en sí misma y apuestan por más clases prácticas dentro de su formación. Abstract. The initial training of Physical Education teachers has "undergone" deep changes along with educational reforms. What should remain equally relevant is that students, as future specialist teachers in this area, should be the ones who value the quality of their education. In this research, we use the tool validated by Moreno and Conte (2001), the Assessment and Training on Teaching in Physical Education (V.A.C.D.E.F.), which we applied to 39 Primary Education degree students who attend the program in Physical Education at a Center of the University of Cádiz. Among the most important findings, we emphasize that the majority of students feel well trained for carrying out the future teaching work. They agree with the contents that are imparted in their program, they are interested in the technical elements of sports and the specialty itself, as well as they strive for more practical classes within their training.


Author(s):  
Mª Jesús Fernández Sánchez ◽  
Ana Belén Borrachero Cortés ◽  
María Brígido Mero

Abstract.The teacher affectivity and the reflection about own attitudes on future teachers’ are a key aspect in Science Teaching. There is controversy about the effect that different variables could have in this attitude. For this reason, we carry out a research to know the situation of the future science teachers’ self-efficacy, who are studying Primary Education teacher at University of Extremadura (UEX). Also, we wanted to explore the influence of different variables on self-efficacy. In this research participated a total of 227 students of a subject named “practicum”, which belong to the curricula of second year of Primary Education Degree at UEx (Spain). They completed a Likert scale questionnaire about science teachers’ self-efficacy and emotions after their first science classes like teachers; although in this study only speak about the findings related to self-efficacy. The results show that future teachers, after their first science classes like teachers, have high self-efficacy if we compared with their self-efficacy before their practice like teachers. About influence that some variables have over science teachers’ self-efficacy in training, we obtained that gender and age did not affect the aspect measured. However, we observed that science teachers’ self-efficacy has been affected by the subject (Physics and Chemistry, and Natural Sciences) and the number of classes that they have been developed about this subject (3 or less than 3, and 4 or more than 4).Keywords: Self-efficacy, science teaching, primary teachers.Resumen.La afectividad del profesorado y la reflexión de los docentes en formación sobre las propias actitudes constituyen un aspecto fundamental en la Didáctica de las Ciencias, existiendo gran controversia en relación al efecto que diversas variables pueden tener en dicho constructo actitudinal. Por ello, nos planteamos realizar una aproximación a la autoeficacia ante la didáctica de las Ciencias del profesorado de Primaria en formación de la Universidad de Extremadura (UEx). Además, pretendíamos explorar la influencia que sobre ella pueden tener determinadas variables. En el estudio participaron un total de 227 alumnos que se encontraban cursando la asignatura “Practicum” del plan de estudios del 2º curso del Grado de la especialidad de Primaria de la UEx (España). Los participantes cumplimentaron un cuestionario, de escala Likert, sobre emociones y autoeficacia docente ante la enseñanza de las ciencias tras la realización de las primeras prácticas docentes; aunque, en este trabajo, únicamente analizaremos los hallazgos relacionados con la autoeficacia. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que el profesorado en formación, tras las prácticas, posee una autoeficacia elevada ante la enseñanza de las ciencias si lo comparamos con la que presentaban antes de dicho periodo formativo. En cuanto a las variables que inciden en la autoeficacia experimentada, podemos observar que el género y la edad no afectan al constructo medido. Sin embargo, se observa que la autoeficacia de los docentes en formación ante la enseñanza de las Ciencias se ha visto afectada por dos aspectos; por una parte, se ve influida por la asignatura sobre la que se han impartido contenidos (Física y Química, y Ciencias Naturales) y, por otra, por el número de sesiones que se han desarrollado sobre la misma (3 o menos de tres, y 4 o más de 4).Palabras claves: Autoeficacia, enseñanza de las ciencias, profesorado de Primaria


Author(s):  
Isabel María Gómez-Trigueros ◽  
Santiago Ponsoda López de Atalaya ◽  
Rocío Díez Ros

The purpose of this study is to analyze the perception of the digital teaching competences of the students of the Degree in Pre-School Education, Degree in Primary Education and Master in Teacher Training for Secondary Education. Additionally, this paper includes the students’ perception of their teachers’ digital competence. A mixed non-experimental methodology has been used with 428 the University of Alicante students participating. The results show a positive perception of the students about their digital teaching competence with contrasts with a deficient evaluation in relation to the digital teaching training of their teaching staff. Based on these results, the need to apply an improvement in the manipulative and didactic technological training of university teachers is corroborated as well as an adaptation of the teaching skills to the needs of the ICS in order to be able to carry out the correct preparation of the teaching staff in training.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Ramón Moreno-Vera ◽  
Santiago Ponsoda-López de Atalaya ◽  
Rubén Blanes-Mora

The main goal of this research was to analyse the perception of trainee primary education teachers regarding motivation when using comics as a resource to teach and learn history. To achieve this objective, a history education programme was designed based on the use of comics and the outcomes evaluated via a mixed qualitative-quantitative post-test questionnaire (Likert scale 1–5). Two hundred twenty-one trainee primary teachers from the University of Alicante, Spain participated in the study during the 2020/2021 academic year. Data were collected using the IBM SPSS v.24 statistical package and AQUAD 7. The results showed that the majority of future teachers felt highly motivated when using comic resources to learn history instead of textbooks (90.5% of participants); trainee teachers recognise that the use of comics improves their capacity to be more creative and that they feel able to design and use their own comic resources to teach history in the future.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Mercedes Cuevas López ◽  
Francisco Díaz Rosas

This study, an analysis of the specific skills acquired through the primary education degree, was carried out at one of the University of Granada’s faculties offering this degree. This work reviewed the teaching guides of curriculum subjects to check the skills intended to be acquired from them. Subsequently, Student opinions of the faculties of education, economics and technology in Ceuta was collected to determine to what extent the students perceive having acquired these skills. The sample consists of 105 students in different stages of the degree. The results obtained show an acceptable level of skills acquired, and at the same time, the existence of certain training deficiencies. The authors conclude it is advisable to extend the study to other faculties of the University of Granada to determine whether the educational deficiencies affect the design of the degree.


Author(s):  
Ana García-Arroyo

Este artículo se basa en una experienciainnovadorallevadaa cabo en la asignatura obligatoria de “Lengua extranjera para maestros/as: inglés”, del Grado de Educación Infantil y Primaria, de la Universidad de Valencia, realizadadurante el año 2018-19. Se planteóconseguir el siguiente objetivo: potenciar la competencia comunicativa en lengua inglesa, el pensamiento crítico y la sensibilidad con respecto a las desigualdades de género. Para desarrollarlo se propusoel uso didáctico de una selección de textos literarios multiculturales,que se trabajarondesde la perspectiva de género, empleando la pedagogía feminista (bell hooks,1994)1,que potencia el pensamiento crítico y la descentralización del poder, para promoveruna educación más transversal, apoyada en valores de justicia y equidad. This article is based on a 2018-19 innovative experiencecarried out within the compulsory subject of “EFL for Pre-school and Primary Education Teachers”, which is part of the Degree of Infant and Primary Education, of the University of Valencia. It pursued the following aim: to enhance communicative competencein English, critical thinking and sensitivity regarding gender inequalities. To develop this work, the didactic use of a selection ofmulticultural literary texts wasproposed, as a means to focuson gender issues.We also appliedbell hook’s feminist pedagogy (1994), which enhances critical thinking and the decentralization of power, to promote a more cross-curricular education sustained by values of justice and equity.


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