Workshop with Parents: An Alternative Intervention Proposal

Abstract

The Developmental Psychology teaching team at the National University of Jujuy is conducting research in a primary school on the southeastern outskirts of the city of San Salvador de Jujuy. In this educational institution, learning problems are very frequent, especially when children are learning to read and write.

Since a multiplicity of factors is intertwined in learning, work with parents was chosen as a possible alternative for addressing learning difficulties. The task to be carried out, together with its strategy and methodology, implies thinking of the family as a structure constitutive of the subject.

The methodological proposal consists in presenting the workshop as a resource through which parents can speak freely about their own concerns. The construction of this social space for reflection and exchange allows unease to emerge. In their discourse, points of conflict come to the surface.

The workshop thus becomes an instrument through which parents can speak and act upon the family structure.