This chapter deals with a small-scale study that focuses on the analysis of the student teachers' evidence gathered from the first task of the Barcelona study week of the proPIC project. The task, called 'One picture and One thousand words', consists of selecting an image that represents the student teachers' conception of Additional Language (AL)…

This article considers the experience of walking the 850-km Camino del Norte to Santiago de Compostela in Spain as a metaphor for an inner camino: an inner way of developing resilience. Suggestions are proposed about what this might mean for initial teacher education and student teachers themselves. Using an autoethnographic methodology,…

After thirty-three years of exile in Mexico, Ernestina de Champourcin returned to Madrid in 1972, in time to witness the profound political changes in Spain prompted by the death of Franco and by the cultural revolution originating in the capital known as the "movida madrileña." Between 1979 and 1980, she responded to the explosion of…