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Description |
Extract |
| Connection with reality |
Watching the series makes it easier to approach conflicts as if they were a real experience, as it offers present-day issues, a variety of conflicts, conflicts between different agents and school bodies, a systemic perspective of conflicts … |
“We should also bear in mind that in spite of it being a theoretical exercise and not a real conflict, it is perhaps the most similar to direct experimentation conducted through critical study.” G1.7 |
| Innovation |
It is valued as an innovative methodfor tackling the complexity ofconflicts. |
“Dealing with a subject as complex as conflictprevention and resolution through a television series seemed like an innovative approach to us.” G1.2 |
| Suitability for the groupdiscussion process aimedat resolving the case. |
It has great potential for the analysisof cases in teams, as it can be watched as many times as necessary and helps focus attention in different ways so as to enable the team to reflect on the issues together and build solutions from a preventive perspective. |
“Having the chance to watch the scenes as often as we wanted enabled us to pay special attention to body language (gestures, facial expressions, etc.), a very important aspect when it comes to identifying the characters’ emotions.” G2.5 |
| Improvement in mediation skills. |
Become aware of the skills requiredas mediators in the dynamic ofworking with the group. |
“Put our own group work skills into practice.” G1.3 |
| Construction in teams from practice to theory |
The experience gained frominteraction in groups can helpunderstand the theory. |
“Doing the work in teams has enabled us to noticesmall subtle aspects of the conflicts, of the interpersonal relationships. Debating in a group,sometimes about a single scene … has shown us how different our perspectives can be …. It is gratifying to reach an opinion as a group.” G2.5 |
| Development of criticalthinking |
Comparing and defending the ideas of each person has enabled them toincrease their personal resources forresolution in the future (more openminds) and the critical capacity toidentify the information relevant tothis situation. |
“Reflecting about our actions and their consequences broadens our range of options when it comes to choosing how to manage a conflict, because other emotions also appear, which you have to learn to control correctly.” G2.12 |
| Detection of non-inclusive ideas or actions |
Watching the series enables students to observe non-inclusive situations and ways of preventing and intervening in them. |
“This series is full of stereotypes, above all sexist, in which in some cases the woman is treated asinferior.” G2 |
| Cooperation |
Resolving and taking decisions about the cases selected by the team has brought about an improvement in relations. |
“Strengthen the bonds between us as teammates.”G1.10 |
| Awareness of the learningprocess |
Become aware of the progress madein learning. |
“As we went further into the contents for this course and while doing the work itself, we noticed that we were getting better all the time.” G1.1 |
