Teacher Training for Inclusive Education. A Challenge from the National University of Education in Ecuador

Abstract

The training of teachers committed to their times, with high humanistic, ethical, innovative and investigative values, generators of environments for attention to diversity is a demand of the Ecuadorian educational system, the objective of the article is to propose a reconsideration of the process of formation of professionals for attention to diversity, capable of conducting inclusive educational practices from the pedagogical model of unae. The work makes sense from the trend studies on teacher training, with emphasis on teachers for special education and support schools, as well as the demands that Ecuadorian society poses to their educational institutions to make it every day more inclusive and open to diversity. Based on these premises, a Degree in Inclusive Education was designed and implemented by the National University of Education (unae), where interesting experience is accumulated in the training process of professionals.