The images of God present in students of initial teacher training

Abstract

This article shares the results of the research that was carried out for the purpose of getting the master´s degree. In the study carried out, the images of god that young people were reconstructing and investigated, in order to try to understand what ideas were orienting their decisions in daily life. We worked with a sample of 18 students in the 4th year of initial teacher training at a pedagogical institute in Lima, to whom an interview guide and a focus group guide were applied. The research standpoint was qualitative and the ethnographic type. One of the most important conclusions that it was obtained were that the images of God presented by the students were constructed from beliefs stemming from significant experiences related to relatives and other people from less immediate contexts. In addition, it was also possible to identify that these images of god were not built on the received doctrinal teachings but based on life experiences that were significant to them. Being these images of god the ones that preva´s in his way of understanding, relating and living his faith in god, as well an in his ways of thinking, understading and acting in life.