Global reflections about teachers’ training and professional development in Spain and Latin America

Abstract

The Spanish contexts and Latin American share many common aspects in the educational field, mainly in reference to the Spanish State and after the last educational reformations, it also suits to stress that there too many contextual, social and educational aspects that separate them. The article refers, specifically, to the politics of training and professional development of teachers of that conglomerate called «State of the autonomies» that configures the Spanish State and to some Latin American countries. More than to carry out a meticulous analysis of the countries, or a detailed portrait of the situation, a more global reflection is made, from the knowledge of the reality, and starting from the comparison and the reflection to end up presenting tendencies and orientations on the teachers formation in the countries that contain among its languages some Latin.