Reflection on the preservice teachers’ practicum in apprentice teacher education: Perceptions of the academic tutors

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https://doi.org/10.24310/RevPracticumrep.v7i2.13878

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Pre-professional practice, teacher training, pedagogical partner, joint reflection, theory-practice relationship

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The training of preservice teachers (AdD) currently demands guided models focused on strengthening the development of the theory-practice relationship and reflection on the situations or experiences of preservice teaching practicum (PP). This research was carried out at the Universidad Nacional de Educación in Ecuador (UNAE), and in order to achieve its proposal, this study included three multiple case studies. The mentioned studies were made up of the AdDs from the fifth semester of the Elementary Education Major (Educación Básica EB) and their respective Academic Pedagogical Pairs of tutors (PPA), who participated in a process of collaborative reflection. Moreover, two in-depth semi-structured interviews were applied to the actors, which were studied by means of a deductive thematic analysis. The results underline the importance of working on the reflection of the students’ teaching practicum, and therefore, they have allowed us to understand the representations of the academic tutors in regards of the preservice teachers’ practicum (PP).

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Author Biographies

Jaime Iván Ullauri-Ullauri

Degree in Educational Psychology, Master in Education and Development of Thought from the University of Cuenca - Ecuador, Master in Educational Guidance from the National University of Distance Education - Spain. I am currently studying a Doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Barcelona-Spain, under the direction of Dra. Teresa Mauri Majós, within the Grintie research group.
I have participated in university leveling processes at the University of Cuenca and at the National University of Education of Ecuador. I have been a teacher of Basic General Education and Baccalaureate within the area of Social Studies and Development of Philosophical Thought. Academic Facilitator of the Educational Advisory and Audit Program and the Continuing Training Program "Sí Profe" of the Ministry of Education of Ecuador. Currently I work as a teacher-researcher in the chair of Human Learning and Conscious Mind (emotions, memory, reasoning and language) at the National University of Education.
My current research interests are framed within Educational Psychology, initial teacher training, reflection on situations and experiences of teaching pre-professional practice (practicum).

Teresa Mauri-Majós

Doctora en Psicología por la Universidad de Barcelona y Maestra. Profesora honorífica de la Educación de la Universidad de Barcelona. Ha investigado, impulsado y codirigido trabajos sobre el desarrollo del currículum escolar, el análisis de los procesos de interacción en situaciones educativas, la evaluación de los aprendizajes escolares y sobre la innovación, la docencia y evaluación en Educación Superior y de manera específica en el Prácticum de Maestro.

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2022-12-03

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Ullauri-Ullauri, J. I., & Mauri-Majós, T. (2022). Reflection on the preservice teachers’ practicum in apprentice teacher education: Perceptions of the academic tutors. Diario De Practicum, 7(2), 169–186. https://doi.org/10.24310/RevPracticumrep.v7i2.13878

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