The recognition and qualification of the teaching profession are indispensable conditions for the quality of teaching and education. In the current national and international context, the increasing demands on the teaching profession from an epistemological perspective (as a research-oriented profession), ontological perspective (as a helping profession) and deontological perspective (in its communicative dimension) are compounded by the uncertainties arising from the shortage of teachers. Initial and in-service teacher education is more than ever challenged by this scenario and plays a central role in asserting the teaching profession. The ReLeCo Teacher Education, Professionalism & Teachers Identities [ProFid] focuses its concerns on teacher education, with underlying considerations that include not only professional identity and teaching professionalism, but also the dimensions of educational, social, cultural and political ethics.

The purpose of ReLeCo ProFid is to reflect on:

Initial Teacher Education (ITE)

1. Policies for ITE - national and international dimensions, policies for access to initial teacher education and the profession.
2. Structures of ITE - models and curricula, dual university/polytechnic system, professional practice, university/school relationship, professional induction.

Continuous education

1. Policies and places of Continuous education: the role of the CFAE (Centre of Education of the Association of Schools), the Higher Education Institutes and the Centres of Research and Development.

Teaching professionalism

1. Professional knowledge.
2. Teacher autonomy, agency and leadership.

Teachers' professional identities

1. Present and future educators and teachers.
2. Sociological dimensions (and sociology of work) of the profession.
3. Historical dimensions of the profession.
4. Revaluation, satisfaction and well-being of teachers.

Coordenation team

• Leanete Thomas Dotta
• Teresa Santos 

Other Researches

• Alcina de Oliveira Martins
• André Freitas
• Ana Paula Silva
• António Teodoro
• Bento Cavadas
• Ana Sofia António
• Filomena Parada
• Irene Figueiredo
• Louise dos Santos Lima
• Clara Craveiro
• Maria de Nazaré Castro Coimbra

Researchers in Training

• Ana Inês Sousa (Master)
• Cristina Ribeiro ( Master)
• Joselita Santos ( Master)
• Juliana Mendes ( Master)
• Marlene Ferreira (PhD)
• Maria José do Carmo (PhD)
• Natália Malheiro (Master)
• Olga Ribeiro (PhD)
• Susana Oliveira (PhD)
• Vilma Martelo (Master)