“…The choice to carry out the research in an ITEd program, and in a physics course, in Angola was based in the following four reasons: (a) ITEd is the first step for teachers' professional development, and so it should have a crucial role in developing future teachers' competences for education for sustainable development (ESD), as referred by Albareda-Tiana et al (2019), even when teaching is seen as a "profession placed within the context of lifelong learning" (European Commission [EC], 2005). Furthermore, and despite educational research in Angola being still scarce, there is some evidence that ITEd does not yet integrate the perspectives of ESD, which takes on board the sustainable development goals (SDG), neither in future teachers' pedagogical projects nor by teacher educators (Chissingui and Costa, 2020); (b) there is still a lack of initiatives in Angola in the context of continuous teacher education, namely for physics teachers (Breganha et al, 2019a), which highlights the need for initiatives toward educational change in ITEd program; (c) research carried out in the country shows that physics teaching, namely in secondary education, is still based on a transmissive model, mainly centered on scholarly knowledge, which does not highlight the social role of physics teaching (Breganha et al, 2019a); and (d) the first author's professional experience as a physics teacher, and as the coordinator of the subject for 7 years, in the school where the study was carried out. Furthermore, his experience also shows worries from his physics students (future teachers) about the irrelevance of the physics they were taught.…”