Multidisciplinary Training For Teaching: Design, Practices And Extent Of A Postgraduate Program

Abstract

 Teacher training is still an unresolved issue in Mexico. Middle and high school education, in particular, faces a major challenge due to its lack of a robust institutional structure for the further training of teachers, who hold a professional disciplinary degree, but generally lack pedagogical preparation. To address this situation, a master's degree was approved in 2003 with the intention of providing comprehensive training with a multidisciplinary approach, which was implemented through various mechanisms such as a curriculum based on three axes: the discipline of teaching, the socio-ethical, educational and psycho-pedagogical areas, in correspondence with a scheme of tutorial committees composed of academics from different disciplines. The purpose of this article is to describe the institutional design, analyze some practices and assess the scope of this program in terms of its multidisciplinary approach. This study is both descriptive and analytical. One of the main achievements is to point out that it is necessary to move towards interdisciplinary teacher training and to incorporate contents that address old and new demands such as technologies, environmental care and inclusion.