The participatory workshop was held on 8 and 9 March 2010 in the school hostel No. 1 "Hipólito Yrigoyen. Participants included teachers, administrators and caretakers of the school and teachers in the neighboring towns of Saliquelló, Tres Lomas and 30 August.
On Monday morning was held in conjunction with Baccigalupo Cecilia Foundation, a paddle clinic aimed at school pupils and children hostel Sheltered Workshop Tres Lomas. After this activity began the workshop: It invited participants to make a map to show their work situations. Seek this activity to initiate a diagnostic work on the practices in each of their educational institutions. The problems that arose were worked in the two-day workshop.
started working with one of the difficulties that participants in one of the maps. Commented that the school hostel housed children in social risk, so it should work in coordination with a juvenile court. The problem lay precisely in that joint. At this point we reached a dead end: we collided head on with the problem of the bureaucracy of state institutions. But while we addressed this problem We were listening on a fundamental aspect of this institution on which we worked hard and we want to convey in this story.
The school daily living situations very strong emotionally. Teachers, administrators and guards commented that there is much dialogue between them to support these difficult situations and they generate a lot of impotence. A dialogue on the one hand it helps to stand there and, on the other hand, serves to inform each other about the situation of groups and devise strategies to intervene together. They said, for example, "Mondays sometimes bad guys go home, then," ... some is going to make physical education the biggest ...". That is, there are times ruled for different subjects, ie math class, but if they feel better than go to gym class because he got sick in the his parents, there is the flexibility needed for him to go to physical education class. They said: "Here we must break with the stiffness constant," this school is permante transformation. "In this line commented one of the teachers that "sometimes you did all the planning and you have to keep you in my pocket", to make way for what happened at the group level.
On this said that "eventually you have to do this or that or this other." Because "all have to pull the wheel in the same direction." We live in difficult situations and constantly "is not to deny the sadness, there is a place for that-but together we, with that, to something better." It is interesting how the team to these difficult situations together, breaking the rigidity, to one side. In this line to the concierge said that works like this: not that its "jurisdiction" is the door, she also participates in this dynamic. And they added: "If you're not playing here, if you engage in this ... can not stand."
We could see and share work two evenings Engineer Thompson. We could see a group that constantly creates a dynamic work of which there are a lot to learn and am very pleased to see that we can work that way. Since the actual practices in classrooms in a school in a village, see how it works to re-weave the social fabric from there, making it a deeply political work.
