Videoresearch and teacher education: giving practice a voice

What and how can teachers learn from their daily class activities? This study tries to provide a partial answer to this question. The research project has involved 22 classes of different education levels (pre-school, primary and secondary school) from Bari and its district; Video documentation was used as a professional educational practice for teachers’ training. The spread of new digital audio-visual technologies allowed easier educational documentation experiences, in which the “making of” of the whole process has the same importance of the final product. Video contents may be also used to analyse and meditate on some specific contexts: video footage, if analysed together with researchers may represent a valuable starting point to favour both explicit and auto-assessment processes. This research also provides a self-assessment sheet used as a device for an educational model based on the use of video footage addressed to teachers’ learning.