The effectiveness and role of video analysis as a tool for professional development and teaching innovation in academia is a relatively new and challenging subject of inquiry. As with primary and secondary school teachers, improvement of teaching experiences in universities can begin with critical and motivated reflection by teachers. This article describes and analyzes the experience of four university science teachers who, through observing video recordings of their own lectures and responding to interviews about their personal teaching experiences and methods, came to a thorough and pointed analysis of their own teaching especially in relation to interaction with students. The path taken enabled the authors to identify a number of elements that can contribute to incisive change in teaching. Through the analysis of the data collected, it was possible to highlight how the entire teaching action mainly gravitates around the attempt to actively involve students, a basic element for a university teaching aimed at fostering under‐ standing and learning already during the classroom explanation, before individual study. In the study, moments of pos‐ sible intervention in teaching practice and possible future actions were identified.
L’efficacia e il ruolo della video‐analisi come strumento di sviluppo professionale e innovazione didattica in ambito acca‐ demico sono oggetto di indagine relativamente nuovo e stimolante. Come per gli insegnanti della scuola primaria e se‐ condaria, anche nelle Università, il miglioramento delle esperienze di insegnamento può partire da una riflessione critica e motivata da parte dei docenti. In questo articolo viene descritta e analizzata l’esperienza di quattro docenti universitari di area scientifica che attraverso l’osservazione delle videoregistrazioni delle proprie lezioni e rispondendo a interviste sulle personali esperienze e modalità di insegnamento, sono giunti ad un’analisi approfondita e puntuale della propria didattica soprattutto in relazione all’in‐ terazione con gli studenti. Il percorso compiuto ha consentito agli autori di individuare una serie di elementi che possono contribuire a un cambiamento incisivo della didattica. Attraverso l’analisi dei dati raccolti è stato possibile mettere in luce come l’intera azione didattica graviti principalmente attorno al tentativo di coinvolgere attivamente gli studenti, elemento basilare per una didattica universitaria finalizzata a favorire comprensione e apprendimento già durante la spiegazione in aula, prima dello studio individuale. Nello studio, sono stati individuati i momenti di possibile intervento nella pratica didattica e le possibili azioni future.
Cambiare il focus della riflessione didattica con la video-analisi. Un’indagine su quattro insegnamenti universitari
Marco D'Agostini
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2025-01-01
Abstract
The effectiveness and role of video analysis as a tool for professional development and teaching innovation in academia is a relatively new and challenging subject of inquiry. As with primary and secondary school teachers, improvement of teaching experiences in universities can begin with critical and motivated reflection by teachers. This article describes and analyzes the experience of four university science teachers who, through observing video recordings of their own lectures and responding to interviews about their personal teaching experiences and methods, came to a thorough and pointed analysis of their own teaching especially in relation to interaction with students. The path taken enabled the authors to identify a number of elements that can contribute to incisive change in teaching. Through the analysis of the data collected, it was possible to highlight how the entire teaching action mainly gravitates around the attempt to actively involve students, a basic element for a university teaching aimed at fostering under‐ standing and learning already during the classroom explanation, before individual study. In the study, moments of pos‐ sible intervention in teaching practice and possible future actions were identified.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


