This paper introduces the important role of narrative methods for professional development in teachers’ training. In particular, diary writing is theorized as a means facilitating teacher active learning and reflection on educational practice. A case-study on a sample of 60 school teachers enrolled in a mathematics program is discussed to illustrate a potential use of teachers’ narratives, with the aim of exploring different meanings and functions of teaching-learning processes. A textual analysis of diaries written about classroom educational experience shows that teaching description is mainly method and procedure focused. Instead, paying attention to educational process seems allowing teachers to combine students’ needs, context analysis and professional identity and to abandon a standardized and routine practice.
L’articolo introduce l’importanza dei metodi narrativi per lo sviluppo professionale nella formazione degli insegnanti, con specifico riguardo al diario di bordo quale strumento in grado di facilitare un apprendimento attivo e la riflessione sulla pratica educativa. Uno studio di caso su un campione di 60 docenti iscritti a un corso in didattica della matematica illustra un possibile impiego delle narrative degli insegnanti, al fine di esplorare i significati e le funzioni implicate nei processi di insegnamento-apprendimento. L’analisi testuale dei diari di bordo prodotti sull’esperienza didattica in classe rileva come la descrizione delle pratiche di insegnamento sia maggiormente focalizzata su aspetti metodologici e procedurali. L’attenzione al processo educativo sembra, invece, consentire ai docenti di integrare i bisogni degli studenti, l’analisi del contesto e l’identità professionale, svincolandosi da una prassi routinaria e standardizzata.
Metodi narrativi per la formazione degli insegnanti: il diario di bordo / Caputo, Andrea. - In: FOR. - ISSN 1972-506X. - STAMPA. - 89(2012), pp. 95-99. [10.3280/FOR2011-089015]
Metodi narrativi per la formazione degli insegnanti: il diario di bordo
CAPUTO, ANDREA
2012
Abstract
This paper introduces the important role of narrative methods for professional development in teachers’ training. In particular, diary writing is theorized as a means facilitating teacher active learning and reflection on educational practice. A case-study on a sample of 60 school teachers enrolled in a mathematics program is discussed to illustrate a potential use of teachers’ narratives, with the aim of exploring different meanings and functions of teaching-learning processes. A textual analysis of diaries written about classroom educational experience shows that teaching description is mainly method and procedure focused. Instead, paying attention to educational process seems allowing teachers to combine students’ needs, context analysis and professional identity and to abandon a standardized and routine practice.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.