Teacher training
Michele Corsi
The article analyses the entire framework of teacher training: from nursery school to university. It moves on a timeline from the recent past towards a future that is no longer predictable, outlining the current situation, transiting via specific degree courses and the various training programmes offered or on offer, right up to the legal pathways envisaged as part of this package. Finally, it provides an account of the current set-up of support courses and of the hypothesis of on-site changes, now considered a prevailing trend, with specific attention to the age group of pupils between 3 and 11 years. It then proceeds to examine the core of a teacher’s work, namely, teaching, with regard to the two integral and interrelated elements it comprises: instruction and education. All this against the backdrop of a society and its various components which is in constant flux and is marked by distinct positive feedback, just as in a school context currently characterised by crises and emergencies, which were either unheard of or decidedly less impactful until a few decades ago. In the end, it opens up to radically innovative proposals in the education sector: from specific teacher training to the interconnected rethinking of teaching activities, in order to truly rise up to the challenges of our present times. Not least at the level of universities, whose mission it is to train tomorrow’s professionals.
Keywords
School, university, teaching.
