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- Title
Challenges for university teacher education in Brazil posed by the Alpha Generation.
- Authors
Carvalho, Rafael Nicolau; Ferreira Monteiro, Carlos Eduardo; Pereira Martins, Maria Niedja
- Abstract
Generation has been used as a theoretical construct for understanding the characteristics of age groups born in the same historical period. Children born since 2010 are considered to make up the Alpha Generation, whose members have had access to digital information and communication technologies from a very young age. In this article, we discuss the Alpha Generation in relation to initial teacher education. We have conducted an empirical study with 57 teaching-degree undergraduates from a federal public university in Brazil. Participants' responses indicate that they are aware of the challenges posed by the new generations and able to critically analyse the training processes in which they are engaged.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; EDUCATION of college teachers; COLLEGE teachers; INFORMATION &; communication technologies; TEACHER education; AGE groups; DIGITAL technology; DIGITAL communications
- Publication
Research in Education & Learning Innovation Archives (REALIA), 2022, Issue 28, p61
- ISSN
2659-9031
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7203/realia.28.21408