Images about citizenship education in initial teacher education. ; Imágenes sobre la educación para la ciudadanía en la formación inicial del profesorado

Although in the past decades a lot has been written about citizenship education, at least in Spain little is known about how pre-service teachers are formed to educate for citizenship. In recent years we have tried to cover this gap with a line of research that to date has focused on the teacher educators of the Primary Education Degree at the University of Cantabria. After gathering their verbal rationalizations about political life and citizenship education through semi-structured interviews, we realized that we needed to go beyond this level of analysis and use new research techniques to delve into the tacit perceptions of the teachers, since they cannot be considered as the mere product of deliberate mental exercises. Hence, we chose to examine certain language tropes less subject to conscious control like metaphors, taking advantage of the recent contributions of cognitive science and neuroscience about the automatic thinking (Kahneman, 2012) and its influence on our political decisions (Haidt, 2012; Lakoff, 2008). This look at the data allowed us to detect allegories such as “citizens as plants”, “citizenship as motor” and “democracy as a goal” that outline an idealized narrative about citizenship education. ; Aunque en las pasadas décadas se ha escrito en abundancia acerca de la educación para la ciudadanía, al menos en España se sabe muy poco acerca de cómo se educa para educar en la ciudadanía en las instancias de formación del profesorado. En estos últimos años hemos intentado contribuir a tapar dicha laguna con una línea de investigación que hasta la fecha se ha centrado en los formadores universitarios de estudiantes de los Grados de Magisterio de la Universidad de Cantabria. Tras acopiar sus racionalizaciones verbalizadas acerca de la vida política y la educación ciudadana a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas, se nos hizo evidente la necesidad de ir más allá de ese nivel de análisis y utilizar nuevas técnicas indagativas que nos permitieran adentrarnos en el substrato tácito y menos sujeto a ...