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Presentation

The group's research activity focuses on teacher training in different school content areas: experimental sciences, mathematics, Spanish language and foreign language, literature, physical education, music education, etc. This involves, at different points in time, systematic evaluation of the disciplinary knowledge of future teachers, the development of their learning and teaching strategies, their epistemic knowledge, their teaching thinking and, of course, their specific didactic knowledge. This should lead to an evaluation and improvement of the current teacher training model in order to update it and make it more effective. Research associated with the understanding and development of skills and habits in primary and secondary school students should complement the above, since this knowledge constitutes the necessary basis for adapting teacher training to the needs of students, and for turning teacher education into valid, reliable and transferable academic knowledge, overcoming tradition-based craft models.