Research Teacher Training: The Meaning of an Experience

Abstract

In the framework of the Master’s Degree on Education at La Salle University, the research project known as Research Teacher Training: The Meaning of an Experience set a goal to explore the meaning of research teacher training for the professors. By using a qualitative research with a descriptive, phenomenological approach, the author turned to the stories and interview in order to obtain the descriptions based on aspects as: The motivations, expectations, uncertainties, difficulties and achievements that made it possible to rebuild this experience. From the analysis and interpretation of the results, it was possible to conclude that being trained as research teachers was an intense, difficult and sometimes traumatic experience, which constitutes a satisfactory and essential the teacher qualification process, due to its humane and comprehensive nature, and which was, in spite of everything, worth living