Browsing by Author "Salinas, Alvaro"

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    Crisis times and school education: is teacher agency changing?
    (2024) Reyes-Rojas, Jose; Salinas, Alvaro
    This article explores how educators dealt with an unprecedented educational crisis using remote teaching and delve into the characteristics of teacher agency in crisis situations. Employing a multiple case study design, the study explores diverse school experiences in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile. Data were gathered from three schools, comprising 24 interviews (18 teachers and six administrators) and analysed using grounded theory. Findings suggest that teachers demonstrate the ability to reconstruct the affected dimensions when faced with a lack of pedagogical resources for emergency remote teaching (fracture in the iterative dimension) and uncertainty about the future (fracture in the projective dimension). Moreover, the agentic transition can explain the practical-evaluative dimension in crises. Across three stages, agentic transition outlines a journey for teachers, from grappling with an unprecedented crisis with limited resources to normalising their practices with technical expertise in the context of new remote teaching scenarios. The present article introduces key concepts and models and delves into implications and future projections.
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    INNOVATION IN TEACHING PRACTICES OF STUDENT TEACHERS
    (IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT, 2015) Salinas, Alvaro; Rozas, Tamara; Cisternas, Pablo; Chova, LG; Martinez, AL; Torres, IC
    This article deals with the willingness that student teachers have towards innovation regarding certain aspects of their future work, and which elements of teacher training programs influence such willingness to innovate. The data shows that student teachers perceive themselves to be innovators, particularly regarding the implementation of new ways of relating to students and the use of pedagogical tools. The variables that are most strongly associated with the willingness to innovate are related to the opportunities that student teachers have to search out their own ways of teaching, research recent progress and understand the state of the art of teaching methodologies, being aware of new opportunities, the capacity to develop new ideas, and the capacity to use time efficiently. As a whole, all of these variables together explain only a small portion of the variation regarding willingness to innovate, which leads to additional questions regarding which other elements may contribute to innovation in teaching practices.