Abstract

ROJAS MORENO, Ileana  and  DUCOING WATTY, Patricia. Teacher Education Policies in Brazil and Colombia. A Comparative Study. RMIE [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.89, pp.395-422.  Epub June 04, 2021. ISSN 1405-6666.

Based on the advances of an institutional research study, this article attempts to characterize certain elements of the teacher education policies in effect in Brazil and Colombia. These two Latin American nations were selected because they have a history of shared conditions of lags and progress linked to the region's processes of socioeconomic development, in addition to the impact of the international agendas of educational policy in recent decades. By utilizing a comparative methodological approach for analyzing the documentary corpus (statistics, national legal frameworks, documents, and international databases), we found differences and similarities in the two nations' implementations of teacher policies, as they have struggled to address the multiple challenges of a problem that is both complex and unavoidable.

Keywords : educational policies; teacher policies; teacher education; comparative education.