Professional teacher development through learning ecologies: Teachers´ views

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21556/edutec.2019.68.1307

Keywords:

Learning Ecologies, Primary Education Teachers, Information and Communication Technologies, Teacher Professional Development

Abstract

We live in a changing world, in a society in which information and communication technologies (ICT) enable new opportunities for updating. This study aims to determine what the preferences of teacher's permanent training are. We carried out a quantitative non-experimental descriptive study in order to deal with this objective. The participants were 73 teachers of Primary Education. The data was collected through a self-created questionnaire. The results highlight three critical issues: the increasingly relevant role of ICT in updating the professional practice of teachers, the demand for a more adjusted formal training to current needs, and the positive assessment of the educational possibilities of informal contexts of training in teacher professional development. In this way, it can be observed that the society in which we live has generated new teaching training needs.

Funding

This study was developed within the framework of the research project (ECO4LEARN-HE), financed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Reference EDU2015-67907-R), and also through the financing received by one of the authors, Iris Estévez, in the FPI program of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (BES-2016-077330).

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Published

28-06-2019

How to Cite

Sangrà, A., Estévez, I., Iglesias, V., & Souto-Seijo, A. (2019). Professional teacher development through learning ecologies: Teachers´ views. Edutec, Revista Electrónica De Tecnología Educativa, (68), 42–53. https://doi.org/10.21556/edutec.2019.68.1307

Issue

No. 68 (2019): Monographic Edutec 2018 Congress Education with technology: a social commitment

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Journal articles

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