Dossier. Some traces in the path of teacher training. Praxis in the Teaching Practice / the Teaching Practice as praxis

Abstract

This paper intends to resignify and share the training experience of students from the Teaching Training Program in Education at the National University of San Luis, Argentina, during their pedagogical practices in 2011. The Praxis IV workshop focuses on the teaching practice and represents a space that contributes significantly to the construction of students’ professional identity. The students participate in several activities: exchange, production and reflection workshops, study seminars, field work in different educational institutions, observation and analysis practices, pedagogical practices, writing experience journals, and exchange and collaboration tasks using ICT tools, among others .These constitute spaces of high personal involvement and ethical commitment that need to be further analyzed, reconstructed and resignified. We are a group of people who put ourselves to the test in the educational practice, assuming the role of teachers who are eager to make contributions and improvements. For a year, we experienced teaching, we lived it, sweated it, and fought for it and along the way we were able to rediscover it. We have a utopia: to be able to change a little part of what we do not like, using education as our tool and from the perspective of a committed teaching, which would lead us to the achievement of that goal. As fourth year students of Educational Sciences, we share part of what we have built during this rich experience: The teaching practice, which played a fundamental role in our training.