How do practising teachers and teachers in training value activities aimed at studying sexual reproduction in compulsory education in Spain?

Abstract

This paper is an analysis of teacher' opinions (some are practising teachers while others are training to be Primary and Secondary School teachers) on the educational value and the problems which reproduction-related conceptual aspects treated in a number of activities, designed for the last stage of Primary Education and the first stage of Secondary. The participants value the aspects dealt with during the activities in a positive way and they likewise identify some problems. The teachers in training give reasons for their opinions to a greater extent than their practising counterparts do. Analysing these justifying reasons shows that they do not always focus on the key aspects of the above mentioned activities and it has been seen that the contents of such activities go above and beyond what they actually intend to teach.