Abstract

NIEVA CHAVES, José Antonio  and  MARTINEZ CHACON, Orietta. A NEW VIEW ABOUT TEACHER TRAINING. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.4, pp.14-21. ISSN 2218-3620.

This article reviews the concept of teacher training and its various components, it is conceptualized from the cultural historical approach, in which the cognitive and the affective are considered as a unit. Emphasis is placed on the importance of teacher training for them to assume the challenges that are emerging from social processes, from culture and its dynamics, involving social transformation. A formation which takes into account not only external aspects but also people as a comprehensive subject, in the exchange with their contemporaries and in a searching process, which does not end in the classroom but transcends immediate barriers to approach human condition as a potential, in the determinant role of culture transmission and society transformer: Be a teacher in this historicity.

Keywords : Permanent teacher training; teacher as learner; education; society.

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