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Abstract
This article presents a 2-year participatory intervention developed in a secondary school. Based on the European project Catch-EyoU, fostering a critical and active European citizenship, Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) was used with students to develop individual and collective reflection on the possibilities of political change over dating violence. The complexity of doing TO inside the school and the challenges of promoting a critical political understanding of the structural roots of social problems are discussed.
Acknowledgments
The authors express their public recognition of the school, Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves, and its board, particularly the director, Dr. Álvaro Santos, and president of the general council, Dr. Anabela Amaral, the class teachers, and all the young people who participated in this project.
Funding
This research was financed under the scope of the “CATCH-EyoU—Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions,” funded by the European Union, Horizon 2020 Programme. Grant Agreement num. 649538; http://www.catcheyou.eu/. Joana P. Cruz and José Eduardo Silva are supported by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) with a doctoral (PD/BD/114282/2016) and a post-doctoral (SFRH/BPD/100638/2014) scholarship, respectively.