Narrative skills in Kindergarten: A teachers' education device

MANRIQUE, M. S & SANCHEZ ABCHI, V

Paris

Congreso; NINTH BI--‐ANNUAL CONFERENCE IAMTE (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF MOTHER TONGUE EDUCATION).; 2013

IAMTE (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF MOTHER TONGUE EDUCATION).

This contribution explores the effect of a teacher education device on the practices of 10 kindergarten teachers, working at contexts of poverty in Buenos Aires, Argentina. School failure, the diversity of teaching practices and teaching practices´effect on children´s learning opportunities have motivated this research. The study is based on the assumption that representations underlie teaching practices and teachers´competences, and that teacher education relies on the possibility to affect these representations (Scheuer & Pozo, 2006). In this context, the following research questions have arisen: a) which competences are developed during the teacher education process, in order to scaffold children´s linguistic and cognitive development?; b) how do teachers develop these competences? c) how can we boost new competences and representations through teacher education?.