Professional development of teachers: an issue to adress in the educational centre

Abstract

This article is located in the framework of the doctoral thesis Potentiation of the professional development of teachers of primary and high school in the educational center, and corresponds to the first chapter of the mentioned thesis. It has been developed considering the international trend of the last decade in the field of professional development of teachers, in this direction, theoretical, conceptual and methodological contributions form research groups and researchers stand out and help building sense horizons to understand the development of teachers in diversity and particularity of the educational centers. Equally, through a heuristic process, the common concerns of researches, emergencies and needs of teachers towards continuous learning and its link with the educational or pedagogical practice are unveiled. The methodology followed in doing the article consisted mainly of the bibliographic revision of the field of study, analysis of works of reference and, abstraction and comparison of their main thesis. In the same way, there were files and charts made to allow categories to be identified.