The group's research activity focuses on the training of teachers in different school content areas: experimental sciences, mathematics, 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. All of this should lead to an assessment and improvement of the current teacher education 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 students should complement the above, as this knowledge constitutes the necessary basis for adapting teacher education to the needs of students, and for turning teacher education into valid, reliable and transferable academic knowledge, overcoming tradition-based models.
- To evaluate the disciplinary knowledge, teaching thinking and teaching strategies of future teachers in different school areas.
- To optimise the current teacher training model in order to make it more effective and provide it with greater coherence and validity on a scientific basis.
- To analyse the factors that affect the understanding of school subjects by students at different levels.
- To analyse the factors that affect the development of habits and cognitive and metacognitive strategies for academic learning.
- To develop, validate and implement instruments that favour effective learning of school subjects, useful for teachers.
Teacher training in didactic knowledge of content in different school areas: didactic analysis and didactic action.
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