Rebellion against Subirats for reducing Mathematics or Language to 2.5% of the compulsory training of future teachers

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The scientific societies, the groups of professors and the faculties of Education are preparing a rebellion against the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats.

The reason is the project of ministerial order that changes the structure of the

career and reduces by half the compulsory training in

,

,

or

of future teachers.

credits of the

of the degree were dedicated

to didactic and disciplinary contents of the subjects

thus, the new model lowers them to

That is, to have a total weight in the study plan of the

will go to

and only one will be dedicated

to each of the specific subjects that they will teach their students in Primary.

Teaching is filled with psychopedagogy.

For future teachers, it will be just as important to know Mathematics and how to teach it as it is to master «educational technology», «digital competence», «tutorial action», «interpersonal relations» of students, «attention to diversity» or the gender".

Six credits will be dedicated to each of these sections -there are 10 in total-, the same ones that will now be used for the specific teaching of Mathematics, Natural, Social, Language, Art, Physical Education, Music and Foreign Language.

"With this reform, the training of teachers is touched to death," he warns

, professor of Didactics of the Social Sciences of the

.

«Is it possible to know in depth subjects whose specific didactic-disciplinary training has been reduced to six credits in compulsory training?

At what point has it been assumed that training in scientific, humanistic-social, mathematical or artistic education is not relevant for teacher training and what are the grounds to defend it?», he asks.

Colomer does not understand the meaning, for example, of including a new six-credit subject called

when the marrow that allows it to be filled is reduced to a minimum.

"Can solid research and innovations in these fields be promoted without having the knowledge and specific skills necessary for it?", he raises, warning of

a problem

that has already occurred with the curricula of the

, where it matters more how the student behaves than what he knows.

Teachers with disciplinary deficit

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It exposed Spain a decade ago because its Primary teachers were too trained in pedagogy but, in return, had less preparation in Mathematics than the average.

In this subject, the disciplinary and didactic contents now occupy around the

of the set of credits.

Unlike the new order, the royal decree still in force, from 2007, left the universities room to distribute the teaching load as they wanted.

In practice, the Spanish campuses dedicate an average of

(at the University of Valencia there are 21) that are going to remain at six.

That is to say, a snip has been dealt from the

.

In Language and Literature the cut is even greater.

In the case of the University of Valencia, they dedicate

credits that will now go to only

credits.

In the case of the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences, the average decrease is

"It does not reach a quarter," denounce the teachers.

«He is incoherent, inexplicable and unexpected.

An important part of the student body arrives at Teaching with their secondary mathematical training weighed down by insecurities.

You have to work on knowledge and content.

We do not know what role the Ministry of Education has played in this reform," he regrets.

, professor at the University of Oviedo and vice president of the

, who has requested an interview with Subirats.

The RSME is organizing with other groups of teachers and didactics of Language, Experimental Sciences or Social Sciences to make a joint claim, while incendiary statements are approved by scientific associations.

For example, the one in the

, which denounces that the reform "seriously threatens the training of future citizens in key competencies" and asks: "How can a future teacher teach his subjects if he has barely received training for it?"

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