Teacher formation: the theory-practice relation

Abstract

It is the school’s duty to suggest new ways of producing and distributing knowledge oriented to new ways of understanding and acting in the world, leading to the development of an educational practice that deals with social practice. However, the teachers formation, favouring the theoretical dimension, is distant from the practice; enduring the theory-practice relation, makes it difficult, when not impossible to the teachers, the improve the capacity of reflecting upon their own participation in the process to, continuously and progressively, transform it. Therefore, it is necessary to promote a critical educational process, which not only allows the perfect relation between theory and educational practice but also overcomes the simple transmission of knowledge.