The evaluation of the training of trainers. A catalyst in the process of curricular change toward sustainability

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the inclusion of contents and activities related to sustainability in the training of trainers.
The justification of this research is based on two basic assumptions:
(a) interdisciplinary: our research group is composed of researchers from different academic areas that provide approaches and different academic cultures that facilitates the development of interdisciplinary dialogues from the logic of the disciplinary approaches .
(b) of interaction “University / society”, “world academic / world employment”. The University must respond to the challenge that is faced by today’s society, as it is to prepare trainers competent to face their training functions from the perspective of sustainability.
The study is in the field of research evaluation, assuming the methodological complementarity, combining the use of a quantitative approach, more appropriate to measure effects measurable, and end with the qualitative approach appropriate for the interpretation of the meanings and the obtaining of visions of reality more in depth to study. The instruments of analysis used have been the questionnaire and the interview in depth.
The results allow to obtain a diagnosis on the inclusion of sustainability in the teaching of the teachers involved in the processes of training of trainers of the educational levels of early childhood education, primary education and secondary education at the University studied.