The fact, however, that teachers learn how to teach a particular content must not in any way mean that they should venture into teaching without the necessary competence to do it. It does not give persons a license to teach what they do not know. Teachers’ political, ethical, and professional responsibility puts them under an obligation to prepare and enable themselves before engaging in their teaching practice. Teaching requires constant preparation and development on the part of teachers, as is made clearer and clearer by their teaching experience, if well lived and apprehended. Such development is based on a critical analysis of their practice.
Let us begin from the learning, uncovering experience of those who are preparing for the teaching task, which necessarily involves studying Obviously, my intention here is not to prescribe rules that must be strictly followed; that would be in shocking contradiction to everything I have talked about so far. On the contrary, what I am concerned with here, in line with the spirit of this book, is challenging its readers around certain points and aspects, demonstrating that there is always something different to be done in our educational day-to-day, whether we are involved in it as learners, and thus as teachers, or as teachers, and thus as learners as well.