Training pre-service teachers requires, among other things, content knowledge, pedagogical skills and pedagogical content knowledge. Teacher preparation programs have little, if any spare time to add more courses/activities to their program. However, I argue in this paper that we, as educators, must enhance the amount of physics education research in our pre-service physics teacher training pro...

This article explores how university learning and the period of school placement can contribute to identity development understood as a dynamic evolving process. From this perspective, we understand teacher’s professional an ongoing process interpretation re-interpretation experiences that are shaped in spaces relationship with others, where each person makes different processes identification,...