Hacia la Educación Primaria bilingüe: Diseño de actividades AICLE para Plástica y Ciencias Sociales

Abstract

Bilingual education has become an education innovation and research trend in the last ten years. In fact, it is a priority in the current education system. Therefore, training centres, such as Faculties of Education, must provide students with the necessary tools and knowledge to become professional teachers in plurilingual and pluricultural environments. Considering this, the present paper has two main aims: to show an innovation project carried out in the Bilingual Programme of the Faculty of Education in Albacete consisting in the creation of CLIL resources for Arts and Social Sciences; and to explain how this experience was an opportunity to delve into CLIL and other specific needs future teachers will have in plurilingual Primary schools. This study is framed within education innovation and follows action research, classroom research and the ethnographic case study approach. The results bring to light the benefits of this kind of projects on future teachers’ training, as well as their school placements and undergraduate dissertations, and demonstrate that Faculties of Education are working towards bringing the reality of schools to trainee teachers.