Pedagogy of death in pre-service teacher training

Abstract

Death is a natural phenomenon and, as such, is part of our lives. However, its inclusion as curricular content is far from being effective, neither in the training of students nor in teacher s training. Based on this reality, this proposal analyses the integration of the pedagogy of death into the initial training plans of future teachers of Primary Education. Specifically, the training plans of 15 public universities are examined, through the presence of terms related to this discipline from a mixed approach: On the one hand, the presence of the terms is quantitatively explored and, on the other hand, qualitatively analyzed in which subjects are integrated and with what conception (biological, religious, philosophical or sociocultural). The results highlight the scarcity of terms linked to death and, therefore, the non-existence of teaching training in pedagogy of death, allowing to identify the need no establish strategies to train teachers on this issue.