Expressing “being a trainee”

Abstract

In this article, the words and drawings of the residents are recovered from the focus groups and the submissionof a subsequent questionnaire. The focus groups were carried out with different groups of trainees of ISFD N° 1,2 and 3 of the Province of La Rioja, Argentina, during the years 2015, 2018 and 2021. In the Questionnaires, thecentral premise has been: Identify in a word and a drawing what “being a trainee” means. The central objective isto analyze the ways of communicating the representations of being a trainee in which feelings are imbricated. Weworked with young people who were going through the assistantship process in the province's teacher trainingschools. This group is made up of male and female students in their twenties and thirties. The word and the graphicexpression included are the result of a selection that shows the attribution of meanings to the feeling of beingtrainee. As for the Methodology, in order to carry out the analysis, an exhaustive reading of each questionnairewas made in order to contextualize the interpretation of the drawings. From the presentation and description ofeach one, some axes are identified in terms of closure and synthesis. That is to say, there is a path from the voicesof the trainee to the concept derived from the drawings, to the analysis of the axes that group them.