Challenges for university teacher education in Brazil posed by the Alpha Generation | Zendy

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Challenges for university teacher education in Brazil posed by the Alpha Generation

Author(s) -

Rafael Nicolau Carvalho,

Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Monteiro,

Maria Niedja Pereira Martins

Publication year - 2022

Publication title -

research in education and learning innovation archives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2659-9031

DOI - 10.7203/realia.28.21408

Subject(s) - formative assessment , theme (computing) , construct (python library) , alpha (finance) , first generation , mathematics education , higher education , period (music) , pedagogy , sociology , library science , psychology , political science , computer science , developmental psychology , demography , world wide web , construct validity , population , law , programming language , psychometrics , physics , acoustics

The idea of generation has been used as a theoretical construct to understand the characteristics of age groups born in the same historical period. Currently, children born from 2010 onwards are considered to form generation Alpha, which has access to digital information and communication technologies from an early age. In this article, we develop a discussion that addresses the theme of the Alpha generation to problematize initial teacher education. An empirical study was conducted with 57 teacher degree undergraduates from a federal public university in Brazil. The participants’ answers indicate that they are aware of the new generations’ challenges and critically analyze the formative processes they access.

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