**Dimension 3': Job motivation**

Specifies, analyses, and elaborates on motivation or driving forces in the profession.

**Dimension 4': Future perspective**

Specifies, argues, and transfers expectations about future jobs.

#### *2.6. Reflective Focus Group on Cooperative Learning*

A focus group was formed from the pre-service teachers participating in the experiment. All those who had participated in the activities and the collaborative and reflective learning seminars were invited to join the focus group. Sixteen students responded positively to the invitation. In general, a focus group should have between six and twelve participants, and so, from among those who had agreed to participate, seven students were randomly chosen. These seven focus group participants then received information about the aims of the focus group and signed an informed consent guaranteeing anonymity of information.

Two members from the research team participated in the discussion; one directed it while the other acted as support. The procedure was as follows: a script was prepared, adapting a sequence of questions concerning the professional experience each pre-service teacher had in the schools. The focus

group met fifteen days after having completed the experience, and the session lasted approximately 90 min. The session was recorded on video and audio and then fully transcribed.
