Brazil teacher training

Rosaria Justi is a Lecturer in Chemical Education in the Department of Chemistry at the Eederal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil. She has bachelor s degree in Chemistry, a master s in Education, and a doctorate in Science Education. She has taught chemistry in secondary schools in Brazil and her present work is in teacher training. Since her PhD she has published on historical models in chemical education and on teaching... 

In Brazil, There Are Specific Undergraduate Courses to Teacher Training in... 

I was teaching a group of students whom would ultimately become teachers, since that time there were not many opportunities in Brazil for a highly trained person in science. These students had already had many courses, and this was to be their most advanced course in electricity and magnetism. 

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