Interrogating the value of theatre-based methodologies as a research tool for addressing the effects of violence on young people's education pathways

巴西面临着过高的暴力率，杀人率与冲突地区相似。这种极端的暴力行为影响到日常交往和关系，也影响到包括学校在内的所有公共机构。因此，该网络探讨了暴力如何限制教育途径/机会，其方式反映了性别、种族、阶级和性取向等局部不平等模式。成员们对受极端日常暴力影响的年轻人的身心健康表示关切，并对戏剧方法在加深我们对人们如何生活在日常暴力中的理解方面的潜在作用感到好奇。该网络将在巴西东北部的一所高中进行试点研究，那里的暴力发生率特别高，以便集中和深入讨论使用应用戏剧方法为学生和教师创造安全空间以表达他们的经历的价值。因此，学术界和从业人员之间的这种合作，艺术和人文研究与实践之间的合作，以及发展和教育政策与研究之间的合作，将为研究日常暴力这一紧迫而持久的挑战提供一种基于戏剧的模式。拉丁美洲的非冲突地区杀人率是世界上最高的，主要集中在城市。严重的人际暴力行为基本上没有报告，暴力侵害妇女行为的发生率很高。不同的人群面临着不同种类的威胁和不同程度的脆弱性。青年人必须面对暴力的恐惧、威胁和现实，无论是在家中、学校、街头，还是在与当局的关系中。有证据表明，所有形式的暴力行为都对教育经历产生负面影响，但负面的学校经历也是今后参与暴力犯罪的一个指标。暴力与教育之间的这种多方面关系以及由此可能在教师中造成的脱离接触，是一个需要紧急应对的问题。为什么是剧院？这个问题强调了培养创造性和安全空间的必要性，这些空间允许年轻人表达情感，身体反应和社会实践，否则他们居住的不稳定环境可能会错过这些空间。艺术有着悠久的传统，致力于非暴力，探索人们受到政治，权力和歧视影响的方式。此外，在基于戏剧的活动中，身体的表达性使用与身体成为暴力的目标之间存在着相似之处。这种融合为理解人们在身体和情感上经历暴力的方式提供了一条创造性的途径。活动和成果这项工作将提供方法上的创新，并就暴力对教育的影响提供新的见解。该网络将聚集在一起讨论计划，交付和评估试点，探索基于剧院的方法作为研究方法的价值。特别是，该网络有兴趣解开戏剧方法产生的精确见解，以及它们是否适合调查这样一个敏感和复杂的主题。该网络旨在提供可与政策和实践领域的专业人员和从业人员分享的学习成果，以应对日常暴力的长期危机对青年人教育途径的影响。第二，该网络将制定一项研究建议，以建立在已发展的知识和做法的基础上，探讨在其他环境中使用戏剧方法的可能性，以及这些方法工具不仅作为研究工具而且为这些问题提供未来解决办法的可能性。

OverviewBrazil faces excessively high rates of violence, with homicide rates similar to conflict zones. These extreme rates of violence impact on everyday interactions and relations, and on all public institutions, including schools. This network therefore explores how violence restricts education pathways/access, in ways that reflect localised patterns of inequality, such as gender, race, class, and sexualities. Members share a concern for the emotional and physical well-being of young people affected by extreme levels of everyday violence, and a curiosity in the potential role of theatre methods in deepening our understanding of how people live with exposure to everyday violence. The network will incorporate a pilot study in a high school in North East Brazil, where violence rates are exceptionally high, in order to focus and deepen the discussion on the value of using applied-theatre methods to create safe spaces for pupils and teachers to express their experiences. This collaboration between academics and practitioners, between arts and humanities research and practice, and development and education policy and research will therefore road-test and refine a theatre-based model for researching everyday violence as an urgent and persistent challenge. The issueLatin America has the highest homicide rates in the world for non-conflict zones, which are focused primarily in cities. High levels of interpersonal violence go largely unreported, and rates of violence against women are high. Different groups of people face different sorts of threats and levels of vulnerability. Young people have to deal with the fear, threat and reality of violence, in the home, at school, on the street, and in their relationships with authorities. Evidence suggests that all forms of violence have negative consequences for educational experience, but also negative school experiences are an indicator for future involvement in violent crime. This multidirectional relationship between violence and education, as well as the disengagement this can produce among teachers, is an issue in need of urgent responses. Why theatre?This problem emphasises the need to foster creative and safe spaces that allow young people to express emotions, bodily responses, and social practices that can otherwise get missed in the precarious environment they inhabit. The arts have a long tradition of working for non violence and exploring the ways in which people are impacted by politics, power and discrimination. Moreover, there is a parallel between the expressive use of the body in theatre-based activities, and the body as the target of violence. This convergence offers a creative route for understanding the way people experience violence, physically and emotionally. Activities and outcomesThis work will provide methodological innovation, and fresh insights into the impacts of violence on education. The network will come together to discuss plan, deliver and evaluate a pilot, exploring the value of theatre-based approaches as a research methodology. In particular, the network is interested in unpacking the precise insights produced by theatre methods, and their suitability for investigating such a sensitive and complex topic. The network aims to produce learning that can be shared with professionals and practitioners in the worlds of policy and practice in addressing the impact of the protracted crisis of everyday violence on young people's (YP) education pathways. Secondly, the network will develop a research proposal to build on the knowledge and practices developed, to explore the potential use of theatre approaches in other settings, and the potential of these methodological tools to function not only as tools for research, but also to provide future solutions to these issues.