Teacher trainees and social educators' choices of methodological strategies in their training process

The need to adapt teaching methodologies to the European Higher Education Area lead us to look for the best approaches to guarantee the training of future teachers and social educators. In our examination of methodological strategies, we have taken into account the opinions of 290 students with, establishing the most relevant factors and determining how they discriminate. This is a descriptive and exploratory study, which offers five factors: collaborative work, portfolio, seminar, contract, assistance and counselling. The discrimination is between the contract and the portfolio, showing a difference of interests between the groups of students according to their specialities. (c) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.