Apprendere dall’esperienza relazionale nella scuola multiculturale. La “Teacher Relationship Interview” come strumento per la formazione degli insegnanti

Abstract

This article deals with the theme of teacher-student relationship as a key-educational device in multicultural schools. After a brief discussion on the influences of the teacher-pupil relationship on the learning processes of the students and on in-service training needs, the article focuses on the impact of the “Teacher Relationship Interview” (Pianta, 2001) on teacher’s professionalism through examples drawn from a research conducted in a middle school. The narrative progression of the interview, accompanied by specific questions that elicit a detailed-reconstruction of the two-way dimension of the relationship, opens up interesting methodological perspectives for thinking about the teacher student relationships as a “research and training object”.