CLXIX. MIRADAS A LA FORMACIÓN DOCENTE EN AMÉRICA DEL SUR

Abstract

The present article aims to approach what has been investigated in the subject of teacher in
the last decade of the 20th century and the first two decades of the21st century.
In order to achieve this objective qualitative and interpretative research are used, which are
supported by documentary analysis, the use of the Scopus databased allows to have a global
vision, and the Scielo, Redalyc, Redclade.org databases offer the opportunity to get closer
and analyze how teacher training has been discussed and investigated; which approaches and
methodologies have been used and are being used, and also, how scientific production has
evolved in relation of quantity and related topics with a greater approximation specially on
South America’s research.
It starts from understanding the conception of the state of art that Gómez, Galeano and
Jaramillo (2015) which was identified, constructed, and based on authors such as Vélez,
Peláez and Gómez, 2003; Franco Vasco, 2007; López López, 2009; Zapata Carvajal, 2009;
and the definition of what is an article of the state of the art expressed by González (2002).
As trends, it is highlighted the sustained growth in terms of greater quantity of article
production in the last five years, also the primacy of qualitative methodology for this type of
study, and the importance of the pedagogical approach that prevails over the sociological and
other aspects to understand teacher training.