The double contribution of sociology to teacher training

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyse the two contributions provided by sociology to teacher training, with the purpose of, just going deeper on this analysis, to obtain some relevant improvements in this training; something specially recommended by now, at times of crisis and changes. According to the first of these contributions, Sociology, based on its own conceptual framework, is acting as a tool for sociohistorical analysis, able enough to critically trace the origins of the present reallity in social proccessus and institutions of a freshly past. The paper tryes some explanations about class and gender inequalities at the context of educational policies carried out by the different spanish governments and political regimes, along the period of existence of our educational system. The second of the contributions is the very presence of sociology as a subject at the teacher training curriculum and following Durkheim proposition of sociology as the main Science of Education, Pedagogy and Psychology included. Once again, classic authors came about as another example of the hidden potential of Sociology to identify and criticised Pedagogy formalism, for instance. Finally, several consequences are formulated in order to improve teaching and research in the teacher training field.