Audiovisual, creation and teaching: self-study as an educational experience

Abstract

This study reports an audiovisual experience that approaches initial teacher education and teacher professional development. Our horizon is the critical and creative teaching, integrated with digital technologies and the media over the relationship with students who are protagonists of their own formative processes. Overall, students start their graduation knowing how to use digital technologies, but frequently have difficulty integrating them into educational practices that value their creation and autonomy. During the academic semester we developed, together with the undergrads, studies on audiovisual that ended up in the production of a short-film written and directed by us as subject teachers, and also by the students involved in this creative and collective work, which is the topic of the present study. The theoretical-methodological path that guided this educational project and data analysis were grounded in the perspective of autobiographical narratives (DELORY-MOMBERGER, 2016) considering the shared construction of knowledge through self-reflection (PINNEGAR; HAMILTON, 2009), in the light of the concepts of educational experience (DEWEY, 2011), the potential for knowledge development from both experience (BONDÍA, 2002) and teaching (TARDIF, 2014). We pointed out the possibilities of producing digital short-films as a way to integrate teachers and students in a creative and reflective process, approaching the teaching in articulation with the artistic language. The reflections that emerge bring up possibilities to think about educational proposals that favor a vision of critical and creative appropriation of media and information and communication technologies.