The Contribution of Educational Sciences to Primary Teacher Training in Greece

In view of the elevation of the primary teachers’ training in Greece to a university level, this paper reports on one aspect of those teachers’ training in the existing primary teachers training institutions, that of the curriculum structure.

The effectiveness of their training was investigated by means of a questionnaire, answered by a sample of 324 experienced primary teachers.

According to the results, the Greek primary teachers seriously question the structure and content of the curriculum in the primary teachers training institutions (the Pedagogical Academies), since it contributes to the training of a type of teacher whom neither they want nor the society needs. For an improved and more effective primary teachers’ training scheme they proposed the focusing of the curriculum on the educational sciences.