Perceptions of teachers in training regarding educational research

Abstract

This article presents a research that seeks to identify the perception of in training-Primary Education teachers regarding the educational research. To develop this research, a qualitative study with a phenomenographic approach was applied to twenty students of the Elementary Education Program from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The results, in contrast to previous studies, suggest that future teachers perceive research as important and necessary in their profession and value positively the work of researchers. However, they believe that the training they receive in terms of research should be better and more useful for their teaching performance.