Young People who do not Learn? An Intervention-research using Conversation-Theatre

Abstract

The present study refers to the presentation of an intervention-research carried out with young people identified at schools in scholar failure situation, concerning learning and/or behaviour. The research has been carried out along four classes of students of the third cycle of Fundamental Education, and aimed at learning and intervening upon what appears to be a symptom at school. Here we present the process and the results related to one of those classes, the one of the students considered, by the teachers, incapable of learning. The work relies on the methodology of Conversation of psychoanalytical orientation, introducing theatrical resources for the word production, which constitutes the Conversation-Theatre.