Percepciones de los futuros docentes sobre la cultura organizacional de los centros de prácticas externas de Educación Secundaria

Abstract

The general objective of this study is to show the initial results of a questionnaire about organizational culture in secondary education centres answered for 57 future teachers who are students of the University Master's degree in compulsory Secondary Education and High School in the University of Malaga (Specialty Technology). The results show that the future teachers think that they should give class taking into account the diversity of students in their classroom, they should review their techniques and teaching strategies in the training process and their continuous updating.  Besides, there are differences in the perception of the organizational culture of secondary education centres depending on the gender related to variables like the functions of the institution, government centres, funding, methodology, students, assessment and relations with the environment. The data are useful for go the improvement of training actions, let evaluate the slants and to adaptat to the challenges of the Secondary Education.