Practicum mediated by photo-elicitation: Contribution to initial teacher training and the professional development of the teacher-tutor

Prácticum mediado por fotoelicitación: aportación a la formación inicial docente y a la permanente del profesorado-tutor

Antonio Bautista García Vera, Universidad Complutense de MadridFollow
María Jesús Romera Iruela, Universidad Comlutense de MadridFollow
María Rosario Limón Mendizábal, Universidad Complutense de MadridFollow
Belinda Uxach Molina, Universidad Complutense de MadridFollow

DOI

10.22550/2174-0909.4251

Abstract

This article investigates to what extent teaching degree students, during the three months of traineeship in schools, converse about, reflect on and rethink their tutors’ teaching practices through photo-elicitation processes to find professional development and improvement in both groups. A qualitative research methodology was used, focusing on the study of two cases. A photo-elicitation approach was implemented, guided by the trainee teachers to enable them to reflect on their tutors’ practice in the classroom and school, through photography. The results indicate that the educational situations captured by the student teachers are of an instructional and formative nature, with a predominance of denotative and connotative levels in the content of the first group and of denotative, connotative and affective levels in the second group. The photo-elicitation process followed led to the development of three main types of relationship between the trainee teachers and their tutors, defined as confirmation, contribution and reference, which fostered complicity, involvement, joint responsibility and mutual professional development.

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Author Biography

Antonio Bautista-García-Vera. Professor of the Department of Educational Studies in the Faculty of Education at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Director of the consolidated research group “Desarrollo tecnológico, exclusión social y educación (DETECESE) [Technological development, social exclusion and education]” at this university. Author of over two hundred publications in the field of knowledge of didactics and school organisation. He has directed research projects for calls for proposals from the National Plan for R&D&i, regional governments and the UCM, as well as for innovation in teaching. He has held different academic posts and contributes to several journals and institutions, as well as to national and international assessment agencies.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-7419

María-Jesús Romera-Iruela. Doctor in Philosophy and Education Studies, having attained awards for excellence in her bachelor’s degree and doctorate, as well as the third prize for research in the National Educational Research and Innovation Awards. As a senior lecturer at the University Complutense she has taught the subjects of methodological basis for educational research and pedagogical knowledge, prevention and educational treatment of drug addiction, and Practicum. In addition, she has participated as a teacher on doctoral and post-graduate courses. She has completed several innovation projects in response to calls for Proyectos de Innova-Docencia UCM [UCM Innovation-Teaching Projects]. She is the author of research and publications that are in line with the epistemology and methodology of educational research, pedagogical documentation and photo-elicitation. She has conducted research projects and is currently involved in the project PID2022-136865OA-I00 FOTO-EDU. She is a member of the consolidated research group “Desarrollo tecnológico, exclusión social y educación (DETECESE)”.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8922-5828

María-Rosario Limón-Mendizábal. Professor at the Department of Educational Studies in the Faculty of Education at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is a member of the consolidated research group “Desarrollo tecnológico, exclusión social y educación (DETECESE)”. She has directed and collaborated on Proyectos de Innova-Docencia UCM. She has participated in research projects in response to calls from the National Plan for R&D&i. She is the author of articles and book chapters related to the field of knowledge of educational theory and history, with links to lines of research into social pedagogy. She has held several academic posts (vice-dean, head of department, etcetera) and scientific posts with journals and conferences.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9939-4681

Belinda Uxach-Molina. Trainee Predoctoral Researcher (FPU [research staff training]) at the Department of Educational Studies in the Faculty of Education at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She received a grant from the Ministry of Education to work in the department in the field of knowledge of Didactics and School Organisation. She is a member of the consolidated research group at this university called “Desarrollo tecnológico, exclusión social y educación (DETECESE)”. She has participated in research projects in response to calls from the National Plan for R&D&i and has been a team member on several innovation projects as proposals for Proyectos de Innova-Docencia UCM. She has intervened at several international conferences with associated publications and has published a meta-analysis relating to the main subject of her dissertation, the use of the smartphone as an educational tool.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8613-4621

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Bautista-García-Vera, A., Romera-Iruela, M. J., Limón-Mendizábal, M. R., & Uxach-Molina, B. (2025). Practicum mediated by photo-elicitation: Contribution to initial teacher training and the professional development of the teacher-tutor [Prácticum mediado por fotoelicitación: aportación a la formación inicial docente y a la permanente del profesorado-tutor]. Revista Española de Pedagogía, 83(291), 347-362. https://doi.org/10.22550/2174-0909.4251