Mathematics primary teacher training at the University of Granada: an adaption to the EHEA

The future implementation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) requires thorough reflection on how to design and develop teacher training course. In this reflection, it is important to reconsider, among other issues, the role of perspective teachers in their own learning process and the professional competences that they must develop in the course of their higher education. Since 2004, the University of Granada has undertaken the development of pilot experiences to adapt some degree programs to this new framework, within them the degree Teacher in Primary Education. This degree includes several courses for promoting prospective teachers' development of mathematical and pedagogical knowledge. In this paper we first analyse the general process of adapting these courses. Secondly we describe its theoretical and practical structure, with some examples of practical activities related to arithmetic and number sense. Finally, some results of the implementation are discussed. Reprinted by permission of EOS Publishing and University of Almería (Spain)