Associative research in the context of initial teacher training

The main purpose of associative research is to construct a new and non-existent type of knowledge, which is not the sum of the academic or theoretical knowledge of the university, with the practical knowledge of teachers and their schools. It is a knowledge that is built from the observation, description, analysis and joint reflection of problems-phenomena of teaching. Through a process of dialogical and dialectical work from different perspectives and resources, we develop insights in which methods, techniques and tools from both academic and school cultures are put to work.