Action research as a tool to achieve coherence in the pre-service professional teaching practice process during initial teacher training

Abstract

The Chilean Ministry of Education has promoted a change that seeks to put teacher-training universities in tune with the actual educational needs of today's society. Despite this proposal, pre-service professional teaching practice continues being devised as a process where cooperating and supervising teachers and student-teachers do not seem to agree on what is expected from them. The present essay aims at analyzing the use of action-research as the methodology that would promote professional development and situated knowledge construction that would improve the process of pre-service professional teaching practice during initial teacher formation.