Research and teaching practice in education of teachers

Abstract

The purpose of the essay is to introduce the research element from the point of view of educational transformation, that is, the transition from the conception of a teacher as a transmitter of data, towards a creative teacher who is looking for solutions to the problems. The principal topics covered in the essay are: paradigmatic change in the field of education, research as an integral process, teaching practice as the basis for the education of teachers - investigators, among others. The essay makes reference to the theoretic fields such as postpositivist orientation, critical rationality, human interaction and permanent self - education. It is concluded that currently, it is necessary to educate in and for research, and for that matter, in the first place, it is necessary to transform the culture of the institutions that educate teachers.