Teacher training policies in Colombia, 1976-2018

Abstract

Teacher training policies represent a scenario of tension and struggle between the Colombian State, the Normal Schools and the Faculties of Education, in which a bureaucratic, modernizing and dismantling interest of these institutions is at stake, accompanied by adjustment initiatives, complement and direction on the part of the sector of teachers and the teaching profession as a union. Teacher training institutions have been forced, through their associations and groups of intellectuals, to constantly participate in this scenario, between 1976 and 2018, with the aim of establishing guiding principles that define the teacher as an unfinished professional and in permanent formation, as well as the transversal weight that pedagogy and pedagogical practice have in its formative process.