Historical review about distance professional development for elementary teachers in Mexico

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to describe the continuous distance training programs for basic education teachers in Mexico proposed by the government that have developed from 1944 to 2018. To integrate the document, a bibliography review was carried out, in which various official documents issued in different presidential periods were systematized, as well as information offered by the literature related to the subject. It was found that it is possible to identify a parallel advance between the purposes of continuous training associated with the status of the teaching profession and the technological resources used. It is concluded that the continuous training needs of teachers became more complex as the degree of study of the teaching profession increased. In relation to technological progress, an increasingly sophisticated offer has been developed, which has gone from the use of printed media to the creation of virtual learning environments.