Difficulties and Expectations of Future Education Professionals in the Learning of the Mind Map

ABSTRACT The following research focuses on the mind maps learning strategy used by future education professionals as a resource that encourages planning, reflection, self‐control, and meta‐cognition in the development of knowledge, and that improves creativity, practicality, and systematicity when organizing the information. The aim of this work is to analyze the difficulties and troubles found by future education professionals during their learning of mind maps and their repercussion regarding their expectations of use in their future work as teachers. For this purpose, a quantitative methodology was adopted through the use of a questionnaire created ad hoc. This instrument was utilized to collect the students' assessment of the feelings experienced at the beginning of the mind maps learning process, the difficulties throughout this process and the expectations regarding the use of this technique. The main results of the study show that the difficulties for learning mind maps are a predicting factor of the feelings experienced during the beginning of the learning process. However, these feelings do not condition the expectations of use of the students in any shape or form. Lay : The following research focuses on the mind maps learning strategy used by future education professionals as a resource that encourages planning, reflection, self‐control and meta‐cognition in the development of knowledge, and that improves creativity, practicality and systematicity when organizing the information. The results show that difficulties in learning mind maps are a predictive factor of the feelings experienced, but these do not condition the expectations of use of the students.