Ra Ximhai (Jul 2015)

TEACHER TRAINING SYSTEMS: TRENDS WITH TWO SIMILARITIES AND DISCREPANCIES

  • Isidro Barraza-Soto,
  • Laurencia Barraza-Barraza,
  • Claudia Ivone Romero-Morales

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. Special 4
pp. 425 – 466

Abstract

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This essay presents a follow up on teacher-training educational policies and, in particular, those related to the constitution of the Teacher Training System (Sistema de Formación Docente, in Spanish). The follow up is developed by reviewing the trends proposed by UNESCO and ANUIES. The period of policies analyzed is from 1990 to 2006. Reforms that were undertaken after this period are obliquely addressed, as we consider that the reforms analyzed appeared and were designed in this period, however a big part of them operate nowadays. From this review, we have detected that constitution of the teacher training system remains as a pending topic. Policies and reforms for teacher training are on a neoliberal scenario, resulting on teacher training being sent to what is known as “education market”.

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