Scientific Evidence-Based Teacher Education and Social Impact

Introduction

Contributions from diverse sources of knowledge have offered multiple reflections on the power of education for students’ social inclusion, regardless of their social and economic contexts. This places governments, universities, schools, and others in charge in a crucial position, in order to increase children’s future opportunities. The consensus on the effect that teachers and their teaching’s quality have is ever-growing. In this regard, there is a wealth of research on effective teacher education, which promotes students’ and their educational communities’ educational and social improvement. These are the promotion of teacher education based on scientific evidence and the monitoring of its effectiveness according to social impact.

However, it is necessary to advance in fundamental aspects: first, how to achieve the transferability of those actions in which teachers are trained to the classrooms; second, how to gather evidence on the way in which training based on...