A classroom experience in project pedagogy: teaching audiovisual language from the autobiographical
Keywords:
University teaching, Classroom research, Interaction, Pedagogy based on projects, Audiovisual language, Autobiographical stories.Abstract
The present paper contains a pedagogical reflection about a research experience in the classroom with second-semester students of the Social Communication and Journalism Program. The research is based on the concept of Pedagogy through Projects and was carried out by professors of the Social Communication and Journalism Program and of the Psychology and Education Program at the Universidad Cató- lica Popular del Risaralda in 2007.
In the article, the authors describe the organization of a didactic sequence led by a professor in the Social Communication and Journalism Program and the planning, execution, socialization, and evaluation steps of a pedagogical project. These phases articulate two aims: first the professor’s, who is interested in creating situations aimed at teaching the audiovisual language in order to transcend the traditional methods regarding it; and second, the students’, who, facing the problem of how to articulate the learning of the audiovisual language to real interests, meaningful and pertinent to their own environment, coincide in linking this learning to their own life stories. Students do so by making use of the audiovisual language to tell such personal stories from various perspectives.
According to the authors, the above-mentioned research experience brings about two possibilities of transdisciplinar learning: the first critically revisits the teaching activity, and the second relates each individual with his or her personal biography. The authors opt for the former, given their interest in clarifying the place pedagogy has in the teaching of this discipline.
