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'13 Reasons Why' is an American series that tells the life of a group of teenagers and their relationships, often toxic and harmful, whose link is school. The series addresses issues such as sexist violence, bullying, loneliness, drugs or the urgent need to please others, among others.
From this starting point, the 'I Conference on Educational Social Responsibility: For 13 Reasons' of the URJC, directed by the professor of the Theory and History of Education area, Luis Manuel Martínez, is being held this Thursday 14th in the of events on the Fuenlabrada campus. The teacher explains that they have chosen this approach, “because it is a series that the vast majority of students have seen in which the interrelationships between families, teachers, the community and all the damage that can occur in the school are shown. , which have to do with sexual orientation, negative leadership generated by self-centeredness, emotional loneliness, etc”. In addition, he adds, "the series says that we can all be good or bad at some point and that the important thing is to know how to learn and rectify in time." "It's a very attractive and interesting way to show a case study," says the teacher
Open debate to build solutions
The objective of the conference is "to show that the centers not only educate in the classroom, but that they also do so with school life and that teachers are protagonists of life in the center seeking greater involvement of families to create social cohesion ”.
To this end, two round tables and a workshop session have been organized. In the first table, URJC teachers will analyze the series and all the issues it raises, aspects such as "emotional loneliness, depression, the fear of being alone, non-consensual and socially accepted sex, relationships between families and center, says Professor Martínez, who adds that one of the important problems is that "there is no family-center relationship, not even between the school teachers themselves."
The value of empathy
After the analysis of the series, with which it is intended to challenge the attendees on these issues, a series of testimonies will be given by experts in bullying, teachers from a Madrid institute and "the life experience of a young woman who stayed pregnant and was rejected by her family and those around her, although she managed to get ahead and get a master's degree at the URJC," says Professor Martínez.
With these testimonies, it is intended to open a debate and that the public is put in the place in order to combat "a monolithic thinking in public education and a greater acceptance of plurality and diversity", adds the FCJS teacher.
The day will end with workshops to work on self-knowledge and identify emotional loneliness and its reasons and work on self-esteem and empathy. In addition, the French essayist Phillpe Ariño, who will also participate in the round tables, will try to transfer a plural vision of thought within the homosexual group and explain, according to the director of the conference, "that there is no homosexual thought, that each one of the people Homosexuals, like those with another orientation, have their own way of seeing the world.
Great educational pact to heal wounds
The meeting is designed to try to provide solutions to the problems of coexistence that occur in educational centers in Spain. Solutions that pass, according to Professor Martínez, through a "pact for education based on empathy and incorporating families fully into the life of the centers" and through innovative proposals such as "including as a necessary activity, from the age of 14 years, community work to encourage empathy among young people and combat the self-centeredness shown by social networks like Instagram”, concludes Professor Luis Manuel Martínez.