Active and Collaborative Methodologies to Help Improve the Learning of Future Pedagogues

The progressive consolidation of “European convergence” has revealed a shift from a teacher-centred conception of education to a new paradigm in which the pupil is the backbone of the teaching-learning process (Niemi, 2009, Teichler, 2010). This has a direct impact on teaching, which now focuses on learning and the acquisition of skills and abilities -giving particular value to teachers’ and students’ involvement and effort to attain these- and the quality of pupils’ learning (Río, 2004; Light, Cox, Calkins, 2009).