What do teachers of an autonomous region think about their training after an educational change?

Abstract

This work is centred on how the teachers´ thought has evolved. It is focused on experimental science teachers in the Canary Island Autonomous Region (Spain). It is also about the professional development during a time lapse that coincides with different educative laws. In this work, there are two stages. At the first stage, it is designed and elaborated a poll on the teachers´ formation and training, based in an opinion poll in 2002 and 2011. The results are studied and they give us some conclusions which clearly remark what aspect of the teachers´ opinions have changed and which ones still haven´t changed. Then, at a second stage it is compared the results with similar questions that were investigated by some authors in 1988 and 1989 so we can now compare the teachers´ opinion, in different moments, on the most important aspects related to their formation and training.