LIBRI DI ALESSANDRA PRIORE

Obiettivo del libro è di presentare i concetti base del sentire e dell’agire educativamente l’altro quando in primo piano sono il corpo e il suo vissuto. Il richiamo al movimento e allo sport ha il senso sia di sottolineare la loro specifica qualità pedagogica, sia di rilanciare la loro grande opportunità educativa, quale spazio di costruzione e ri-costruzione identitaria e di ricomposizione di difficili sintonie tra i vari ambiti ed espressioni dello sviluppo e della crescita.

The system of relationships and emotions that develop in the teaching-learning process define the complexity of teachers’ education and pose the challenge of bringing out the emotional and affective culture that guides school life. Several studies on teaching practices highlight the tendency to refer to technical aspectsas a key dimension of professionalism, rather than on relational and emotional dimensions that can promote the relationship with student. The creative and unprecedented reconfiguration of professional practice is configured as the outcome of a reflexive process of subjective construction and de-construction of the profession and its development.The paper proposes a reflective training experience, which involved 76 teachers, focused on emotional and relational dimensions on teaching and based on the use of the narrative-autobiographical instruments (diary, narrative, metaphor). The results achieved in the monitoring phase show that the training offered an opportunity to reflect on oneself and one’s personal and professional experience, starting from the use of alternative perspectives and interpretations than those that are already in use

The paper, starting from research and education experiences with teachers, tries to identify the strengths of a change of practices that could be considered in the teacher education to develop a reflexive habitus. The analysis of the ways in which the reflexivity can be taught must consider the spread and typical criticality of teacher professional practices to find education specific to uncovering and redefinition. A reflexive process based on the promotion of resources supports the teacher, when it is in a zone of conflict or tension, to experiment with openness to further possibilities that reside in personal qualities often obfuscated or undervalued, rather than persevere in a limiting factor. To help teachers to conceptualize their teaching images, it is ncessary to invoke autoeducative methodologies, such as narrative and observation, which are able to ease the verbalization of the practice and the key step to building an active relationship with it.