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Abstract

The article intends to highlight the role of the knowledge about teaching that future teachers get from their own experience as students. To this end, it analyzes the texts written by the participants to the Laboratory of Educational Didactic Research of the School of Specialization for Secondary Instruction (SSIS) of Veneto, Verona, 2007/08, concerning their preferred teachers
and their teaching practices. The analysis reveals many significant elements (images, beliefs, implicit theories etc.), which all together express an informal point of view on teaching and its problems. In the final part, the article suggests to encourage the future teachers, during their initial training, to reconsider critically their own student experience, as a stimulus to redefine consciously their concept of teaching.