This article explores how university learning and the period of school placement can contribute to identity development understood as a dynamic and evolving process. From this perspective, we understand the teacher’s professional identity as an ongoing process of interpretation and re-interpretation of experiences that are shaped in professional spaces of relationship with others, where each person makes different processes of identification, representations, and attributions, creating a spiral of continuous construction or reconstruction. It is thus a phenomenon of social interaction. Data collection involved eight students, their school tutors, and university teachers within the framework of 4th-year school placements. Data analysis was organised around three dimensions of the research project: the teacher him/herself, the bond between students and the educational community, and the relationship between the school and the university. The results highlighted the need to improve the practicum, especially at the university level. Both school and university tutors are crucial in promoting and guiding dialogical processes of knowledge construction with oneself, others, and the world. However, the university has an added responsibility in this key relational process; university tutors must improve their role as mediators between students and school tutors to contribute to the development of the teaching identity in a complex and dynamic way.
Este artículo es fruto de la investigación competitiva “Construyendo la identidad docente desde la práctica y la investigación en el aula: el papel del Practicum y el Trabajo de Fin de Grado en la Formación Inicial de Maestro de Educación Primaria” (XXXXX) realizada durante los cursos 2016-17 y 2018. El propósito principal es acercarnos a sus participantes a partir de sus experiencias, ideas, expectativas etc. en la construcción de su identidad docente y de las relaciones que se pueden generar entre la universidad y la escuela en el contexto del practicum de formación inicial. La investigación se desarrolla en la XXXXXX, en el 4º curso del Grado de Maestro de Primaria en educación física y educación inclusiva. Partimos de un paradigma interpretativo y crítico donde los participantes, ocho tutores de escuelas de prácticas, ocho estudiantes y ocho tutores universitarios, van desarrollando sus propias acciones en un determinado contexto social. El análisis se basa en los datos derivados de las memorias, entrevistas individuales, reflexiones escritas, notas de campo, actas de reuniones y un grupo de discusión. Los principales resultados, fruto de este triángulo educativo, muestran diferentes elementos del proceso de aprendizaje del practicum que problematizan la construcción del rol docente: el “yo docente”, la intervención práctica en el aula, la relación de los estudiantes en la comunidad educativa y el vínculo de los saberes de la universidad y la escuela. Estos permiten repensar y sugerir algunas orientaciones metodológicas de mejora del practicum.
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