The research project “The construction of the professional identity of pre-school teachers during initial training and the first years at work” (funded by The Science and Innovation Ministry of Spain, Grant EDU-2010-20852-C02-02) aims to describe, examine and interpret the ideas, reflections and experiences of a Child Education teacher who has built up a professional identity..As part of this project, we present an experience named “Bilakatuz, an art exhibition,” organized with art productions by our students, who are future school teachers in Child Education. They comprise hundred university students in second and third courses (University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian). We, teachers in Art Education and ICT and Education, also participated with our artworks in the experience. With the art productions we organized a collective exhibition in a cultural centre in San Sebastián. These art productions thread not only helps us connect previous ideas and the ideas acquired during training and years of schooling, but at the same time, we can investigate the emotional dimensions of the process of becoming the kind of teacher they would like to be. On one hand, these art works try to recover critical incidents (Derrida, 1998) that occurred during childhood and the education of future teachers, and were expressed through different artistic forms (texts, drawings, installations, collages, digital murals, manifestos) in an attempt to raise awareness and understand the conditions in which we were educated, given the importance that pre-school experiences have on future teachers (Lortie, 1975). On the other hand, we invited future teachers to represent the type of teacher they want to be and where they want to work on stage, to imagine the kind of school and ideal work context by counter-narrative, through manifestos, digital murals and video arts (Richardson, 1994; Denzin, 2007).

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