El acceso a la profesión docente en españa en perspectiva europea. algunas reflexiones orientadas a la mejora de la selección del profesorado

Abstract

For a long time, one of the best documented issues of the educational research is that teachers are a key factor for the quality of education. Thus, the search of effective teachers selection procedures is a very important subject in all education systems, although in Spain this shows to be a scarcely developed issue. The objective of this article is to contribute to a better knowledge of the running of the teacher selection and access systems in our country. At the first stage the analysis shows a perspective of the current procedures of selection used in Europe, in order to compare them with the Spanish case. After this contextual framework, Spanish system is analysed, taking into consideration some studies that deal with opinions of Spanish teachers and national and international experts in education. As a consequence of this information, the article proposes some reflection lines that should be considered to improve the selection of teachers in our country.