HOW CAN REPRESENTATIONS BE CHANGED USING DIDACTIC METHODS AND TECHNIQUES?

Abstract

This study analyses how teachers’ representations can be changed based on reading and repeatedly retelling the text of the tale “The Bear Tricked by the Fox” by Ion Creangă, under the impact of some illustrations of the tale and some relating tasks used to propose creative generation of some interpretations and some scenarios placed in the current scenes. Analysis has been made of the effect of applying the Pre-reading – Reading / Re-reading - Post-reading model starting from the illustrations of a tale and the impact of some didactic methods and techniques on changing representations generated through a tale. A trainer and 15 primary education teachers who attended a professional training course have participated to this study. It was found that all methods and techniques used have generated original results, change and diversification of the participants’ representations, update of the scenarios and scenes in which the original action of the tale took place. The original results were more numerous when participants were requested to respond to divergent questions, anticipate actions and reflections, explain some actions, identify some traits of the characters and compare as well as summarize them. The conclusion was that the way in which the task was formulated prevailed over the method or the technique in changing representations and obtaining some original results.