Abstract:

The work we present aims to share the first results of a broader investigation about the development of teacher’s professional knowledge during graduate studies.

We have done an analysis of the teaching profile in the requiring legislation in Catalonia, through the analysis of the roles attributed to teachers in different situations: in the classroom, at school, in relation to the environment and the general character. This analysis indicates an underlying competence profile, since most of the functions are defined in a competential manner, and this allows us to delimit which teacher demands our society through laws and regulations.

To carry out this work we considered the LOE (Organic law of education, 2006), applied in all the Spanish State, the LEC (Law of education in Catalonia, 2009), which is concreted by LOE and contextualized in Catalonia, as well as annual instructions to schools which provide clarification and give sense to the proposed references.

The purpose of this documentary analysis is to establish an anchor that will allow us to draw comparisons between the current legislative framework and how these teachers are formed, taking into account that the legislative frameworks and the curriculum are not synchronous. For example, future teachers are been formed in the Universities, with different social and professional needs, and therefore, with legislations yet to come.

In order to organize and give meaning to these comparisons, we have based on studies and contributions of Shulman (2005), Perrenoud (2001, 2004), Colen (2010) and Zabalza (2003), among others, as well as the proposals on the knowledge of the educational and professional development of Tardif (2004), which has allowed us to establish the dimensions that make up the knowledge that is considered necessary to form competent teachers, and on this basis we perform the analysis described before.

Keywords:

Profile of the primary teacher, professional teaching skills, pedagogical knowledge, legislative framework of primary education.