Perceptions of Future Teachers of Audiovisual Education and Communication. Challenges in Training for a Sustainable Education

Rosa Pilar Esteve-Faubel, Alba Oller-Benitez and María Pilar Aparicio-Flores
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Rosa Pilar Esteve-Faubel: Department of General Didactic and Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Alba Oller-Benitez: Department of General Didactic and Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
María Pilar Aparicio-Flores: Department of General Didactic and Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 24, 1-13

Abstract: The education of future teachers is going through a crisis related to audiovisual education. Following what is known as the 2015–2030 Agenda, the world of education is being confronted with a new learning model that must respond to the proposals of the Sustainable Development Goals—SDGs. In this article, we want to emphasize the need for training future teachers to meet the new needs of media education, taking into account the increasing importance of sustainable development of children in relation to audiovisual media to maintain their welfare, skills and future prospects. For this reason, the objective of the study is to collect the perceptions of 278 future schoolteachers about the significance of audiovisual education and their own training on the subject, the socio-educational objectives of audiovisual tools, their positioning regarding audiovisual methodology and the concept of communication. Two ad-hoc questionnaires with an ex-post-facto design were used. The findings showed that a reduced percentage of students felt they had received full audiovisual training. Nevertheless, over half of the future schoolteachers considered their work in the classroom to be important for social and educational ends, both from a theoretical and a practical viewpoint. We believe it is necessary to provide audiovisual education to future schoolteachers based on students’ interests and needs.

Keywords: audiovisual education; SDGs; training needs; socio-educational objectives; methodological approaches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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