Developing Professional Knowledge in the Initial Teacher Education

This paper wants to stress out the implications that the initial training of future teachers involves. It is based on the results collected from a five-year long study which has been investigating how students from the study programme Primary and Pre-school pedagogy acquire their theoretical and practical knowledge at the Faculty of Education Sciences, in Bachelor and Master degree studies. The study suggests strategies to improve initial teacher education and ways of determine students to become better teachers. Studying how students learn, we have identified ways of better training for the teaching profession by realised a link between theoretical and practical knowledge.