La narrazione come approccio innovativo per la formazione inclusiva del docente: dalle storie di vita al cambiamento professionale

Abstract

The article investigates storytelling as an innovative approach to inclusive teacher training, following two directions. The first concerns the power of life stories, which are capable of deepening complex phenomena such as those related to disability. Life stories, in fact, allow the reader to go into the heart of pedagogical issues starting from the narrator's point of view. Thanks to the meet with narratives, teachers in training have the opportunity to mend the plots of different existences, to access a generative space of self-transformation and change for the educational and didactic relationship. The second concerns the value of the narrative for educational practices in initial and lifelong education and the role of autobiographical writing in the process of professionalization and recursive reconstruction of professional identity. To this aim, a format used in training classes for support teachers will be presented.