This article aims to analyse the evolution, and current situation, of discourses and policies on cultural diversity in primary schools on both sides of Southern Mediterranean Spain around the Strait of Gibraltar (Andalusia, Murcia, Ceuta and Melilla). To do so, the methodology designed is based on two techniques: documentary analysis of secondary sources (regulations, statistics) and personal interviews with administrative and political personnel from the regional education administration (discourses). Based on the data analysed, the article shows how the arrival of students of foreign origin in the 1990s stimulated education policies of exogenous cultural diversity, whereas endogenous cultural diversity is inherent to historically multicultural societies (‘diversicracy’). The data lead to the conclusion that there is a need to re-politicise educational policy on cultural diversity to promote interculturality based on citizenship rights and social justice, for which a rights-based approach is particularly appropriate.

The aim of this article is to analyze the initial and ongoing training of secondary school teachers to deal with the social problems of students in the classroom from the perspective of intercultural education and new technologies. The research starts from the thesis that these social problems can influence the academic and social success or failure of adolescents. Intercultural education and ICTs, with sustainability values, can favor the maturation process of students. The methodology used has been mixed: (1) documentary analysis of the curriculum of initial and continuing teacher training in relation to these social problems; (2) qualitative techniques with teachers, such as interviews and discussion groups to learn about their discourses regarding their professional vision and the training received. This has allowed us to understand professional practice from the perspective of intercultural education and new technologies. The results show training gaps in the curriculum for secondary school teachers to be able to work on social problems in the classroom with interculturality, together with the challenge of including new technologies and sustainability in the accompaniment of students. This research has done in Andalusia, the southernmost region of Spain, but with a desire to extrapolate its conclusions to other national or international contexts.

Este artículo analiza la formación inicial del profesorado de Secundaria. El objetivo es conocer si dota al profesorado de las herramientas necesarias para abordar los problemas sociales de su alumnado. Se ha empleado una metodología mixta: análisis documental para conocer el currículo del Máster de Secundariaen las 9 universidades públicas andaluzas que lo ofertan; y varias técnicas cualitativas para conocer los discursos del profesorado obre su formación inicial: una autoetnografía en el contexto escolar; un grupo de discusión y 10 entrevistas semiestructuradas en profundidad con un/acoordinador/a de máster y profesorado de centros de titularidad pública, concertada y privada de toda Andalucía. Los datos muestran los vacíos y retos en formación inicial del profesorado de Secundaria para afrontar los problemas sociales del alumnado en la cotidianeidad del aula y permiten concluir poniendo el énfasis en la necesidad de reforzar la formación inicial del profesorado en este ámbito, eminentemente sociológico.