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Hernández Cervantes, L. (2014). Who teaches the social environment in early childhood education? social representations of ways of being a social studies early childhood teacher. Latinoamericana De Estudios Educativos, 10(1), 113–135. Retrieved from https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/latinoamericana/article/view/4957

Authors

Lorenia Hernández Cervantes
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
hernandezlorenia@gmail.com

Abstract

This article describes and analyzes the social representations of a group of 113 pre-service students about the characteristics, knowledge and skills necessary for a teacher to teach Social Sciences. From the students’ answers, some teachers’ models for the teaching of the social environment to early childhood students emerged. The teacher models were analyzed from the Social Studies teacher models proposed by Crowe, Hawley & Brooks (2012). In this study, the authors analyze different models of Social Sciences teachers from a group of students being trained to become teachers in this subject area. The models that emerged from the memories of the group of student teachers related to the teachers they had previous the start of their initial professional education were: a) Being an Information Provider, b) Being a Content Knowledge, c) Being a Character, d) Being Caring and Committed and e) Being “Powerful”. From these models the social representation of the Early Childhood Education Master’s students were analyzed and interpreted. Pre-service early childhood teachers’ social representations were analyzed from the study of Crowe, Hawley & Brooks. According to the results, the desirable Social Sciences teacher models are: a) the“practicalreflexive” teacher, b) the teacher who must “adapt to the social environment where she or he works”, c) the teacher that “promotes a culture”, d) the teacher that “takes care of the children’s interests” and e) the teacher who “should be an example to follow for the children”.

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