Clarín, February 25, 2007, Education section paper version: here and here.
DRAFT READING AND WRITING CLUB YOUTH "OF THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES
Three young confess their secret
writing them back to
school Jonathan (18) a construction worker and is trained to be a boxer, Karen left the Street in poetry and dreams of becoming a journalist Rocío policy. Only three cases, among many, to show that writing and reading are also passion of the boys. Ruben A.
Arribas
Adults err when they say that kids are bored to read or write. The three writing workshops and storytelling one team organized by the Literacy Project for Youth Club to prove it. Many students have approached their stories, comics or cartoons to try to publish in "Put the chest," a book sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires. Moreover, this experience, combined with the national program "All to study," several students return to school in 2007.
This is the case of Jonathan Leguizamón, Karen and Rocío Domínguez Domínguez, writing workshop participants at the headquarters of Patrician Park. Saturday after Saturday, during the second half of 2006, they and their peers have enjoyed capable of arming teachers to enable them to work situations and share their stories with others. And were they oral or paper, or invented autobiographical, have known only one rule: play first, learn later.
And that is playing to the boxer lends his fists to the gloves of writing. Jonathan (18) lives in Villa Soldati, in the morning working as a mason and the afternoons, Saturdays included-train 4 hours in the gym of his father, a boxer and his uncle and grandfather. From them he learned that you must train hard and take care with food, no pizza, bread or soda, if you want to be world champion. Yes, with only 5 defeats in 34 fights, a tough guy as he came to the workshops because his mother insisted he scored and it was.
a Saturday, plus training, won his Soldati lazy to leave and went to the workshop. There he met his friend Ivan Pedrozo and a teacher who, to his surprise, invited him to finish a couple of stories that began with a few lines of Cortázar and Dolina about boxing. A Jony, which they called Ivan, and liked the idea so much they decided to write together. Since then two are inseparable, never forget to put a "pineapple" or "hook" in his writings.
Karen Dominguez (16) prefers the poetry and song to boxing, although that does not mean that you look good stories of his two companions. Lives in Patrician Park and until a time course in La Boca. Without going to school, his days were limited to the TV, chat or go out with a friend. When bored, he says, typed stories "about things that happen." And she found writing helped her overcome the bad times, which are "the most inspired me," he says.
The workshop served a love song for a contest, is engaged with poetry, especially with Neruda, and learned to choose better words for their texts. His is the excerpt: "Many times in life, sometimes things that happen are very unfair and we wonder why life it? Why life takes from the poor people and gives the haves? And in most cases no answer. "
Rocío Domínguez (19) likes Karen texts: "A lot of feeling in his writing, a mixture of pain and helplessness." Rocio lives in Lomas de Zamora, near the Ocean Fair, "a place where children beg for food in business," he says. Although he left school in 2004, tried but failed to return after "Repeat depressed me greatly. Not wanting to go to school, refused to leave home, do not want to do anything. Or would buy. " As would Jony: repeat put the ropes.
She, like Karen, the data of the workshop it became a friend. Rocio told his mother, whom he admires for how each day to get ahead, and it quickly found support from the preceptor Stella Maris Spera, who works in "All to study" and Youth Club. Today Rocío feel you are back in the center of the ring, he wants to finish high school, be a political journalist and comment on the reality of their neighbors. As Jony and Karen, in 2007 will be another opportunity. All three seem excited to play it first and learn later. Confident they still read and write Group will help knock the school failure.
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a collective phenomenon that promotes social inclusion
Frugoni To Sergio, coordinator of Project Literacy for Youth Club, kids enjoy building and share the sense that they suggest a text or an oral narrative. He and his team believe that reading and writing are collective phenomena, not just single and lonely. Therefore, they propose to practice both in group and foster knowledge and also social inclusion.
mid-2006 opened three writing workshops-Lugano, Patricians and Bajo Flores Park-and one-Callao-storytelling, all in schools functioned as Saturday Youth Club. In 6 months they managed to develop more or less stable at about 40 youths from 9 to 19 years and published a book "Putting the chest, which contains part of the material generated. Given the good results in 2007 Frugoni expects further dialogue with the schools and that these, for example, they open their libraries. More information: 4339 1874 and clubdejovenes@buenosaires.gov.ar .
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