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3 Citations
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Innovation of Pedagogical Practices of Future Teachers

  • Petra Konečná,
  • Pavel Smolka,
  • Kateřina Trčková,
  • Zuzana Václavíková and
  • Martin Žáček

30 March 2023

The basic topic of this article is the undergraduate preparation of future teachers in the Czech Republic, specifically the issue of the pedagogical practices of future teachers. We focused mainly on reflective activities within this preparation. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,771 Views
14 Pages

A Descriptive Study on the Training and Attitude of Future Teachers towards Educational Inclusion

  • Jorge Rojo-Ramos,
  • Carlos Ferrera-Granados,
  • Manuel Fernández-Guerrero,
  • Fernando Manzano-Redondo,
  • Miguel Ángel Garcia-Gordillo,
  • Patricia Polero and
  • José Carmelo Adsuar

29 September 2020

The Spanish educational system has heterogeneous and diverse students that have increasing learning needs. All this has forced it to reinvent itself, designing and applying a model of inclusive education that serves to offer a higher quality educatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,593 Views
18 Pages

Training Digital Competencies in Future Primary School Teachers: A Systematic Review

  • Marina Alférez-Pastor,
  • Rocío Collado-Soler,
  • Virginia Lérida-Ayala,
  • Ana Manzano-León,
  • José Manuel Aguilar-Parra and
  • Rubén Trigueros

29 April 2023

Technology proliferated in our daily lives, including in the educational system. To make good use of it, it is so important that teachers have the best training in its use and possibilities. The main objective of this study was to analyze the differe...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,547 Views
21 Pages

10 February 2025

Cultural heritage refers to the set of tangible and intangible assets that a society inherits from its ancestors and transmits to future generations. The training of future teachers in this subject is vital, as they will be responsible for using reso...

(This article belongs to the Section Community and Urban Sociology)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,597 Views
19 Pages

Cinematographic Habits of Future Spanish Teachers from a Socio-Educational Perspective

  • Alejandro Lorenzo-Lledó,
  • Asunción Lledó,
  • Elena Pérez-Vázquez and
  • Gonzalo Lorenzo

One of the key features of today′s society is the role of technology and mass-media. Among these tools, cinema has influenced successive generations more than 100 years. From an educational point of view, it is a resource of high pedagogical va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychosocial Factors and Health in Education: An Interdisciplinary Approach)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,756 Views
16 Pages

High Academic Self-Efficacy and Dispositional Empathy in Future Teachers

  • María Pilar Aparicio-Flores,
  • José María Esteve-Faubel,
  • Rosa Pilar Esteve-Faubel and
  • José Daniel Álvarez-Teruel

19 August 2020

High perceived academic self-efficacy influences both subject performance and emotions of the subject. In turn, dispositional empathy implies a social and emotional adaptability towards the subject itself and those around them. This study aimed to an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The Challenges of the 2020-2030s for Quality Education)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,961 Views
13 Pages

26 March 2025

This study aims to investigate the development of empathy as a thinking skill among preservice teachers at the University of Kazakhstan. Empathy is one of the domains of critical thinking, and this article aims to reveal the domains of empathy of fut...

(This article belongs to the Topic Education and Learning in the Context of the New Normal: Sustainable Development and the Path to Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
395 Views
14 Pages

22 September 2026

Background/Objectives: As China prioritizes a high-quality teacher workforce, teachers’ mental health has gained growing attention. The stress-is-enhancing mindset has been linked to adaptive psychological functioning, but evidence among teache...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Workplace Stress and Burnout: Causes, Effects and Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,090 Views
9 Pages

4 February 2020

The article deals with the development peculiarities of the subject artistic competence of future preschool teachers in the field of artistic and aesthetic education of children by means of contextual educational technologies. The students in questio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue XVI European Congress of Psychology)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,896 Views
12 Pages

Educational Challenges of Higher Education: Validation of the Information Competence Scale for Future Teachers (ICS-FT)

  • Gerardo Gómez-García,
  • Francisco-Javier Hinojo-Lucena,
  • Francisco-Domingo Fernández-Martín and
  • José-María Romero-Rodríguez

29 December 2021

The irruption of information and communication technologies has brought about an abrupt change in the demands placed on future professionals. In this sense, in recent years, information competencies have gained importance in university education from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transition to Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,490 Views
16 Pages

Teacher Agency and Futures Thinking

  • Jan Varpanen,
  • Antti Laherto,
  • Jaakko Hilppö and
  • Tuulikki Ukkonen-Mikkola

Problems encountered in top-down school reforms have repeatedly highlighted the significance of teachers’ agency in educational change. At the same time, temporality has been identified as a key element in teachers’ agency, with teachers&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Studies in Teacher Identity and Professional Development)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,120 Views
15 Pages

3 September 2020

State of the art: Cinema, because of the eclectic nature of art, technology and mass media, can be manifested as an educational tool in the classroom. In this sense, the educational possibilities detected in the cinema are numerous. The pre-service t...

(This article belongs to the Section Techno-Social Smart Systems)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,449 Views
16 Pages

Qualitative Analysis of Use of ICTs and Necessary Personal Competencies (Self-Efficacy, Creativity and Emotional Intelligence) of Future Teachers: Implications for Education

  • María del Mar Molero Jurado,
  • María del Mar Simón Márquez,
  • África Martos Martínez,
  • Ana Belén Barragán Martín,
  • María del Carmen Pérez-Fuentes and
  • José Jesús Gázquez Linares

27 September 2022

(1) Background: The acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) skills and competencies has become enormously important in regard to the effective management of studies or schooling. The questions that guided this study were: Wha...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,965 Views
15 Pages

24 November 2020

The aim of this paper is to provide insights into the appropriateness of teaching-learning and evaluation processes using rubrics, for student self-assessments. We studied students enrolled on the Master’s in Secondary Education Teaching—...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
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  • Open Access
385 Views
31 Pages

7 September 2026

Futures Literacy is increasingly recognized as a key sustainability competence within the GreenComp framework, yet limited research has examined how arts-based pedagogies in teacher education can foster it. This study explores arts-based approaches t...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,146 Views
11 Pages

Psychometric Properties of a Questionnaire to Assess Perceptions of Corporal Expression in Future Spanish Teachers

  • Jorge Rojo-Ramos,
  • Santiago Gomez-Paniagua,
  • María Mendoza-Muñoz,
  • Jorge Carlos-Vivas,
  • Ángel Acevedo-Duque,
  • Elizabeth Emperatriz García-Salirrosas and
  • José Carmelo Adsuar

Corporal expression is a content that is forgotten by most educators but has been proved to bring numerous benefits to students of all ages. Teacher perceptions and beliefs play a fundamental role in the teaching-learning process, influencing student...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Education: Present and Future)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,649 Views
17 Pages

Views on Mathematics Education: A Comparative Study of Future Primary and Future Mathematics Teachers

  • Vana Colić,
  • Zorana Lužanin,
  • Bojan Lazić,
  • Sanja Maričić and
  • Jasmina Klemenović

14 October 2025

Teacher identity emerges from the intertwined relationship of past, present, and future experiences, shaped through active reflection within individual, social, and cultural contexts. This study investigates how initial teacher education programs for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Different Approaches in Mathematics Teacher Education)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,097 Views
10 Pages

Teachers’ Involvement in Inclusive Education: Attitudes of Future Teachers

  • Idoia Legorburu Fernandez,
  • Maria Dosil-Santamaria,
  • Nahia Idoiaga Mondragon and
  • Naiara Ozamiz-Etxebarria

22 August 2023

Background: inclusive education seeks to ensure that all students can access quality education and requires education systems to commit to providing students with equal opportunities to participate in all aspects of school life. While progress has be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,484 Views
16 Pages

Study on the Attitudes and Knowledge of Teachers and Future Teachers about Immediate Health Care Measures at School

  • Paula Pais-Roldán,
  • María del Carmen Olmos-Gómez,
  • Jesús Manuel Cuevas-Rincón and
  • Mónica Luque-Suárez

The level and need for immediate health care measures training for teachers are of growing concern for two main reasons: on the one hand, these contents are part of the school curriculum and, on the other hand, teachers are the first adults to interv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education: 10th Anniversary)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
431 Views
13 Pages

Background/Objectives: Physical activity behaviours are established early in life and tend to track across developmental stages. However, the role of continuity of sport participation across multiple developmental periods in shaping current physical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creating Connection Between Physical and Mental Health in Physical Activity, Physical Exercise and Sport Across the Lifespan)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,440 Views
19 Pages

14 January 2026

This paper investigates the knowledge, attitudes, and practical adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MD) among students of the Teacher Education Study Program in Split. Recent trends indicate a decline in adherence within Mediterranean regions, a phe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adapting Education for a Changing Environment and Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,925 Views
19 Pages

Teacher Motivation: Exploring the Integration of Technology and Didactics in the Narratives of Future Teachers

  • Isabel María Gómez-Trigueros,
  • Mónica Ruiz-Bañuls,
  • José Maria Esteve-Faubel and
  • Francisco Mareque León

17 April 2024

Different theories addressing the motivational process in educational practice highlight the importance of the teacher’s perspective in the effective integration of technologies as pedagogical–didactic tools in the classroom. The current...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,842 Views
13 Pages

Application of Immersive Virtual Reality in the Training of Future Teachers: Scope and Challenges

  • Carlos Arriagada-Hernández,
  • José Pablo Fuenzalida De Ferrari,
  • Lorena Jara-Tomckowiack,
  • Felipe Caamaño-Navarrete and
  • Gerardo Fuentes-Vilugrón

Introduction: The integration of Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) into teacher education is a significant innovation that can enhance the learning and practical training of future teachers. IVR enables highly interactive, immersive experiences in simu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contemporary Developments in Mixed, Augmented, and Virtual Reality: Implications for Teaching and Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,148 Views
10 Pages

8 January 2024

Mixed reality simulations have versatility in both the preparation as well as the recruitment of future teachers. We describe three approaches that have led to successful outcomes for general and special education preservice teachers, as well as in t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Use of Mixed Reality Simulations in Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,949 Views
11 Pages

Future Teachers’ Smartphone Uses and Dependence

  • Julio Ruiz-Palmero,
  • Enrique Sánchez-Rivas,
  • Melchor Gómez-García and
  • Elena Sánchez Vega

Smartphones are indeed becoming an essential tool in the daily lives and relations of their users in recent years, thanks to their uses and potential. However, excessive and inappropriate use can lead to dependence syndromes. The objectives of our st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Technologies, Teacher Training and Competencial Development Based on Innovative Emerging Pedagogies)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,326 Views
17 Pages

Sport and Its Relationship with Oncology in Future Primary Education Teachers

  • Lucía Melero García,
  • Antonio Hernández Fernández and
  • Eufrasio Pérez Navío

This essay is aimed at analyzing the existing relationships between oncological problems and sport in future primary education teachers. This relationship was validated and confirmed by realizing a factorial analysis using an ad hoc-created Likert sc...

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  • Open Access
69 Citations
11,674 Views
15 Pages

Improving Future Teachers’ Digital Competence Using Active Methodologies

  • Carmen Romero-García,
  • Olga Buzón-García and
  • Patricia de Paz-Lugo

21 September 2020

Contemporary society demands a university education based on active and participatory educational models that enable the development of competences, with digital competence being amongst the most demanded ones. This work presents the results of an ed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The Challenges of the 2020-2030s for Quality Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
15,076 Views
17 Pages

Perceptions about the Use of Educational Robotics in the Initial Training of Future Teachers: A Study on STEAM Sustainability among Female Teachers

  • Pedro Román-Graván,
  • Carlos Hervás-Gómez,
  • Antonio Hilario Martín-Padilla and
  • Esther Fernández-Márquez

19 May 2020

In these moments of future uncertainty and change, teachers must be trained to respond to the challenges posed by today’s society, and the challenges that are closely related to the economy. We are going through the first steps of the Fourth In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Online and Ubiquitous Training, Mobile Technology in Education and Sustainability)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,494 Views
13 Pages

8 January 2023

Climate change is a global issue with implications at many levels. Mitigation and adaptation to its growing impacts are of paramount importance for human livelihoods. Shaping beliefs, attitudes, and values is important in this respect. This shaping t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Education and Sustainability Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,048 Views
15 Pages

School Gardens: Initial Training of Future Primary School Teachers and Analysis of Proposals

  • José Orenes Cárceles,
  • Gabriel Enrique Ayuso Fernández,
  • Manuel Fernández-Díaz and
  • José María Egea Fernández

26 April 2022

This paper describes a training proposal for future teachers in the design, management, and use of school gardens as an educational resource. During the 2020/2021 academic year, future teachers in the 4th grade of Primary Education (last year of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gardens as Innovative Learning Contexts)
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  • Open Access
1,367 Views
21 Pages

3 October 2025

We build on previous studies that explore the challenges faced by current and future teachers as they learn to teach mathematics for social justice by focusing on a precursor to teaching lessons, that is, the process of lesson design. Specifically, i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Justice-Centered Mathematics Teaching)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,187 Views
10 Pages

Motives of Future Elementary School Teachers to Be Physically Active

  • Miguel Ángel Durán-Vinagre,
  • Sebastián Feu,
  • Susana Sánchez-Herrera and
  • Javier Cubero

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the motives for engaging in sports activities and the self-determination index (SDI) and how this in turn predicts the intentionality of future elementary school teachers to be physicall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Promoting Health: Physical Activity and Well-Being in Children and Adolescents)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,298 Views
13 Pages

Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games: Effect of Gamification on Future Physical Education Teachers

  • Salvador Pérez-Muñoz,
  • Antonio Sánchez Muñoz,
  • José Manuel De Mena Ramos and
  • Alberto Rodríguez-Cayetano

21 September 2022

Gamification is a new methodological tool in the field of physical education and sports sciences, which seeks to generate a formative change in educational centers and in the training of future teachers. The aim of the research was to analyze the eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gamification and Data-Driven Approaches in Education)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,852 Views
24 Pages

Didactic–Mathematical–Computational Knowledge of Future Teachers When Solving and Designing Robotics Problems

  • Gemma Sala-Sebastià,
  • Adriana Breda,
  • María José Seckel,
  • Danyal Farsani and
  • Àngel Alsina

26 January 2023

The social, scientific and technological development of recent years has encouraged the incorporation of computational thinking in the school curriculum of various countries progressively, starting from early childhood education. This research aims t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,047 Views
13 Pages

The Quality of Training Future Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case from TNPU

  • Mariya Boyko,
  • Olha Turko,
  • Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi and
  • Halyna Henseruk

20 October 2021

This article describes the experience of the communicative competence formation of future teachers in a blended form of education as a dominant one in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main features of such terms as “education quality” and “co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higher Education Quality Assurance)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,357 Views
21 Pages

Making Future Teachers More Aware of Issues Related to Sustainability: An Assessment of Best Practices

  • Mª del Carmen Olmos-Gómez,
  • Ligia Isabel Estrada-Vidal,
  • Francisca Ruiz-Garzón,
  • Rafael López-Cordero and
  • Laila Mohamed-Mohand

16 December 2019

The aim of the present research was to uncover the opinions of future teachers about whether the formative knowledge of education for sustainability received in seminars during their practicums improved their competencies in sustainability and their...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Teacher Education)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,770 Views
14 Pages

20 April 2020

National education policies are increasingly regulated by international agendas, for example the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development (SD). However, in order to put such policies into practice, social actors like teachers and teacher educators mus...

(This article belongs to the Collection Graduate Employment and Sustainability in a Global and Changing Labour Market: Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,491 Views
15 Pages

8 July 2020

In recent decades, the diverse changes produced have accelerated the relationships regulated by media. Cinema was able to bring together moving image and sound for the first time, and as a result of its audiovisual nature, it is a particularly suitab...

(This article belongs to the Collection Motivation and Evaluation in Education from the Sustainability Perspective)
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  • Open Access
867 Views
17 Pages

As educators play a pivotal role in advancing sustainable futures, understanding their readiness to translate sustainability-related knowledge and values into teaching practice has become an important concern in teacher education and professional dev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teaching for Sustainable Futures: Prospects for Professional Growth for Educators)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,029 Views
15 Pages

The teacher plays a key role in fostering sustainability and implementing Education for Sustainable Development at school. This paper presents a study aimed at adapting and validating a shorter version of the Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS) to me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education for Sustainable Development and Teaching: Challenges, Practice and Research)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,770 Views
16 Pages

5 February 2025

It is critical that teachers are equipped with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills and knowledge as we move into a digital future. By integrating STEM into early childhood education, we can provide young children with inval...

(This article belongs to the Section STEM Education)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,474 Views
8 Pages

Reading Motivation, Alcohol and Drug Use in Future Teachers in Preschool and Primary School

  • María de la Rocha Díaz,
  • Inmaculada Méndez and
  • Cecilia Ruiz-Esteban

Future teachers will have to develop the reading habit in their students, as this is an essential factor in schoolchildren. The lack of reading motivation among young people and the need to have it in order to transmit it has been evidenced. Young pe...

(This article belongs to the Collection Teaching Innovation in Higher Education: Areas of Knowledge)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
573 Views
24 Pages

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has emerged as a key priority in contemporary education systems, emphasizing the need to equip learners with the knowledge and competencies required to address complex environmental and societal challenges....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,155 Views
24 Pages

The Self-Perception of Future Teachers’ Digital Training: Strengths and Weaknesses in Addressing Diversity

  • Carmen del Pilar Gallardo-Montes,
  • Inmaculada Ávalos-Ruiz,
  • Lara Checa-Domene and
  • Christian Cid-González

24 February 2026

The use of Information and Communication Technologies is considered an ideal tool for ensuring attention to diversity in the classroom due to their multiple teaching possibilities, ranging from accessibility and adaptability to heterogeneity of learn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Technology for a Multimodal Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,428 Views
13 Pages

30 May 2019

(1) Background. The increase in international conflicts and humanitarian crises has led to an increase in the movement of people to Europe. The legal and moral commitments of the European Union require the incorporation and integration of such refuge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intercultural Education and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,700 Views
13 Pages

9 December 2020

The education of future teachers is going through a crisis related to audiovisual education. Following what is known as the 2015–2030 Agenda, the world of education is being confronted with a new learning model that must respond to the proposal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue ICT and Sustainable Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,786 Views
11 Pages

Environmental Attitudes in Trainee Teachers in Primary Education. The Future of Biodiversity Preservation and Environmental Pollution

  • Inmaculada Aznar-Díaz,
  • Francisco-Javier Hinojo-Lucena,
  • María-Pilar Cáceres-Reche,
  • Juan-Manuel Trujillo-Torres and
  • José-María Romero-Rodríguez

The environmental challenges of the twenty-first century are a consequence of the impact that human beings have on nature. Because of this, environmental attitudes are paramount in establishing effective measures regarding both biodiversity preservat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,247 Views
15 Pages

Exploring Emotional Intelligence, Attitudes Towards Disability, and Sexism Among Future Teachers in Spain

  • Alberto Nolasco Hernández,
  • Jesús Paz-Albo,
  • Aránzazu Hervás-Escobar and
  • Laura Gracia Sanchez

1 October 2025

This research aimed to evaluate the emotional intelligence of future teachers and its relationship with attitudes towards people with disabilities, sexism, and bullying behaviors. Using a non-experimental design under a quantitative approach, 1004 fu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education and Diversity: Innovative Approaches for Inclusion, Diversity and Personalized Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,906 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2021

Various studies show that the level of knowledge achieved by pupils is influenced by the level of knowledge of their teachers. In this article, we focus on geometric thinking and the solutions for geometric tasks through a study of future teachers of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Early Years and Teacher Training)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,284 Views
28 Pages

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, namely, the biggest disruption to education in the last century, this article provides insights into the consequences it holds for teachers’ well-being, their (non)preparedness for and support needed in a...

(This article belongs to the Section Behavioral and Mental Health)

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