Rebuilding practical knowledge in confinement. A teaching experience in Initial Teacher Training

This article presents the experience and teaching dilemmas of a group of teachers in the Initial Early Childhood Teachers' Training, in their adaptation to the virtuality caused by COVID-19. A 10-year-old project that offers an opportunity to rethink Initial Teacher Training in confinement. Initially, the complex and uncertain current social context and the inescapable challenges for Initial Teacher Training are described: the reconstruction of the practical knowledge of our students and the design of an experiential and critical habitus as support for the pedagogical principles of the experience that we describe in the second part. A didactic triangle in permanent relationship with the students' reflections and the debates and concerns that we, as teachers, have shared in the spaces of coordination and adaptation to virtuality. The conclusions of this experience place coordination and tutoring as relevant axes. At the same time, the difficulties and impossibility of a fully virtual Initial Teacher Training experience facilitating the reconstruction of the practical knowledge of Early Childhood Education teachers without a practice in relation to children are noted.