The teaching group

a strategy of psicopedagogical intervention in collegeteaching

Abstract

The teaching group is an educational strategy that intends do contributefor the student to construct his autonomy throught the school’s education.On this work three moments are relevant: (a) projective identification on therelationship with objects, (b) identification on the relationships with otherpeople, (c) vivencial learning. Were part of this study 29 second year studentsof a Publicity course. The study was developed by solicitation of thecoordinator, who presented several complaints about the class; interactionproblems between students, students and teachers, and academic output.Were used as instruments in prior and post test a questionary and a sociogram.The data indicate a low level of integration between the students, severalconflict points and absence of leaderships. From this preliminary study apsicopedagogical action program of 2 weekly meetings of 90 minutes each,for 3 weeks was structured. The activities of the teaching group began withvivencial exercises: non verbal, logical inter and intra-grupal games, andsymbolic-educational exercises, stressing the construction of characters. Theresults were considered favourable for having investigated the grupalintegration, the revision of problems in the classroom, the definition of rolesand the professional formation.