La 'scrittura del caso' come strategia di ricerca per le professioni educative

• Main Author: Elisabetta Biffi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of Bologna, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 1590-492X; 1825-8670; 10.6092/issn.1825-8670/4560
• Keywords: Pedagogia; Ricerca fenomenologico-ermeneutica; Studio di caso; Pratica di scrittura; Psicoanalisi; Education; L
• Source: Encyclopaideia, Vol 18, Iss 39 (2014)

The current paper explores the practice of case writing in educational and pedagogical work, focusing on its use by education professionals as a research and self-reflective strategy. This analysis of the pedagogical case write-up (Riva, 2007) as a clinical research procedure (Demetrio, 2008) is theoretically informed by the hermeneutic phenomenological approach (Van Manen, 1990; 2002) and by the psychoanalytical tradition of clinical case writing (Barbieri, 2005; Ferro, 1999; Semi, 1992). Both approaches provide valuable resources for professionals engaging in case writing, a practice that requires a research stance and a reflective and critical outlook, including and indeed all the more so when it involves telling educational stories.