Online sharing of written narrations to gain awareness of personal beliefs

Addressing learners' beliefs is an effective way to improve education, and is considered particularly important in teacher training. It is, however, a difficult task, because beliefs are often unconscious. In this paper, we argue that sharing personal narrations with the support of web technology may constitute an effective approach to beliefs' elicitation. We illustrate this proposal by discussing two experiences in which a group of trainee teachers shared individual narrations online, intertwining and comparing them to form a concrete ground for joint reflection. In both cases the experience proved successful, which underlines the potential advantage of the proposed approach.