Abstract

PEREIRA, Fátima; CAROLINO, Ana Maria  and  LOPES, Amélia. Primary Teachers’ Initial Education in the last Three Decades of the 20th Century: curricular transformations, educational conceptualization and teachers’ professionalization. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2007, vol.20, n.1, pp.191-219. ISSN 0871-9187.

The last three decades of the 20th century are characterized, in Portugal, by deep changes in the education arena, with implications on the initial education of primary teachers and in their professional identity. The work hereby presented is part of the research processes developed within the scope of an ongoing research project, which approaches primary teachers’ initial education and professional identity issues, and is focused on one of the two research paths that are part of this project, that is, the collection and analysis of documents on teachers’ initial education, produced in the three decades under study. The global analysis of the results allows us to consider that the curriculum of primary teachers’ initial education suffered, in the mentioned period, considerable changes, specifically concerning the meanings that are inferred about 'culture and society', 'educational politics', 'education-professionalization' of these teachers, and about the 'profile of the teacher to be trained'. Those transformations reveal the dialogical character of the curricular proposals (and of their development) with the changes in the State nature and in the social and economic configurations that have been taking place in the Portuguese society.

Keywords : Curriculum; Teachers’ professionalization; Professional identity.

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