Mercedes Blanchard

La Formación del profesorado en temas de violencia y acoso, precisa de dos componentes: Por un lado, saber diseñar, desarrollar y evaluar procesos educativos preventivos, que favorezcan el crecimiento de ciudadanos capaces de generar espacios de convivencia pacífica y, por tanto, que se adelante y prevenga el conflicto y la violencia. Por otro, necesita trabajar aquellos contenidos esenciales para identificar situaciones de violencia y acoso escolar en distintos contextos, cuando estas situaciones aparecen y es importante intervenir de manera que se sepa cómo proceder con las víctimas, agresores ycolaboradores, desde planteamientos educativos y no punitivos. Las autoras de este artículo describimos aquí un cuestionario contextualizado, que sitúa al profesorado en la necesidad de intervenir ante casos de acoso, extraídos de situaciones reales; con este instrumento se puede valorar el grado de conocimiento del profesorado en aspectos fundamentales del acoso y se pueden deducir puntos ...

This research is about the utility of reflective peer coaching as an instrument of professional learning in the Practicum of teacher training and was carried out in the form of a researchaction project. The hypotheses are based on the proposition that peer coaching: a) can be a source of emotional support; b) can provide help in the reflection and construction of «practical theory» processes within a framework of non-threatening trust, and c) can offer the opportunity of learning to cooperate with colleagues. Peer coaching was applied to 33 students of the teacher training Practicum in two modalities, which were carried out one day per week: a) mutual peer observation of the teaching being given, and b) meeting of critical friends to analyze problems, pedagogic situations, etc. In order to find out the students� point of view (the object of this research), data collection was based on the reports sent by the students to their tutors. The reports were subjected to the content analysi...

Resumen La investigación que se recoge en este artículo versa sobre la utilidad del coaching re-flexivo entre iguales como uno de los instrumentos de aprendizaje profesional en el Prácti-cum de la carrera de Magisterio. Se trata de un proyecto de investigación-acción. ...

The present and the future of education are awaiting urgent change. Those who can make this change possible are the teachers themselves, their way of understanding themselves, affecting their own educational identity. The purpose of this essay is to approach the development of their own identity, which must be present from the beginning of the training of future professionals, encouraging students to reflect on their own previous educational experience. This identity will be developed, in their formative process and will deepened during their professional trajectory, though the theory-practice reflection. We present a model of teacher-educator, expert in humanity, capable of growing himself and accompanying others to display all their possibilities and they learn to look at themselves and at reality, to influence and transform. It is necessary to prioritize a curriculum that puts educational theories with own life.