Conflitto di classe, come in un film. Un laboratorio di storytelling per la riduzione creativa dei conflitti nelle scuole

In educational environments, conflictual behaviors emerge often between students and teachers. Aiming to deepen the complexity of these conflicts, we conducted a creative workshop with a problematic high school class. Combining cultural and interpretative anthropology with pedagogy, media sociology and Bateson’s theory of games, we used theories of storytelling developed for film to build, together with the students, an interdisciplinary qualitative research, with the purpose of reducing conflicts among the students. Methodology includes role playing techniques, creative writing and film analysis, as well as the usage of the camcorder as a reflexive tool for listening and sharing the lived experiences through videovoice approach. We offered to the participants the chance to use new narrative methods, in order to allow them to re-negotiate their roles within the class group and to creatively manage the complexity of their conflicts. In this first step, we have achieved excellent results, and currently we are proposing the project to other schools.