The participatory video. An identity definition workshop

The word education comes from Latin educĕre = “take out”, “ bring out what is inside”. This definition is based on the idea that educating someone consists in emerging, coming to the light something that is still inside the person, something innate that the person still have inside himself. In this sense, two new pedagogic approaches are growing in Europe and they are called the not formal education and the informal education movements. These modern educational methods launched very interested innovations also for cultural anthropologists and social researchers, giving them a new tool to investigate about people’s identity and their expressions. In particular, the author will discuss the technique of “participatory video” that belongs to this new pedagogic approach hanging in the balance between learning, discovering and researching. The article will show a real experience of participatory video in Switzerland during 2012; it was focused on the gender identity definition and it had a very strong impact on the all participants.