College education of elementary school teachers: the case of mathematics

 

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Autores: Alpízar-Vargas, Marianela, Alfaro-Arce, Ana Lucía
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2019
Opis:This article describes the curricula offered by state and private universities in Costa Rica to obtain a teaching degree in cycles I and II of elementary education. The study is qualitative and descriptive. Curricula from different universities were reviewed, and coordinators of related programs and math professors from those universities were interviewed. The analysis revealed a wide variety of study programs to train elementary school teachers with no general guidelines and little control. Therefore, there are no regulations in Costa Rica for these programs’ purposes, duration, content or teacher profile, which could affect math education in elementary schools since teachers come from programs with different emphasis
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institucija:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Jezik:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/11762
Online dostop:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/uniciencia/article/view/11762
Access Level:acceso abierto
Ključna beseda:teaching math
teacher training
college education
elementary school
enseñanza de las matemáticas
formación docente
formación universitaria
educación primaria