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LOST IN TRANSLATION
AIMS
It seems interesting to create a L.U. that takes into account the Communication role, that is by its nature:
• necessary
• inevitable
• irreplaceable
• constructive
• vary
• moving
• aggregating
• difficult
• multi-sensorial
• intra-generational
It is necessary to communicate with teens, to answer to their need to show that they “exist” alone and with the
others. There are many ways to do it.
“I am here, I exist, because I dance, sing, draw, hug, write, communicate with gestures, pauses, violence and
loneliness.”
Communication is giving something of yourself… and it is also losing something of yourself.
Very often it means we do not understand the other, or that we lose ourselves, it means we do not understand
and we do not “translate” the other. There is always a “lost in translation”.
School has to invest in resources as educational representative, to harmonize strategies in order to use and
understand the different ways of the teenager’s communication.
Dramatizing the communication helps interdisciplinary and can give different interpretations: performance and
mise–en -scene, from sense to nonsense, use of films, comic strips, rebus and photographic material. Students
individually or in groups will be: actors, set designers, directors, poets, and they will take inspiration from their
everyday life.