Approaches to social science education at the degree of teacher of early childhood education in Spanish public universities

Abstract

The objective is to analyze the approaches of the subject of social science didactics at the Spanish public university, specifically in the degree of teacher of early childhood education, to know what type of training is proposed to the future teachers and contrast it with the regulations and training needs defended by scientific literature to build contextualized professional thinking. The ECI Order has been analyzed (ORDER ECI/3854/2007), basic for the degree, and the knowledge has been expanded by analyzing the teaching guides of the subject compiled from the websites of all the Spanish public universities that offer this degree. The emptying of data has taken into account the different denominations of the subject, academic year, number of ECTS credits associated, syllabus, as well as learning results and competencies. The data show substantial differences in the denomination of the subject, courses in which it is taught, credits and competencies. While spatiotemporal constructs are treated in almost all cases, they are highly mediatized by the Piagetian theories. In addition, training in research and resources such as image, heritage or technologies is not contemplated. We consider it essential that the initial training that the future teacher receives is of quality, that it empowers him to build learning scenarios that contribute to children understanding their experiences and man as being social in the present and in the past; in short, a democratic and responsible citizenship in a globalized, multicultural, uncertain and highly technified society.