Verse-making schools, as educational spaces in adolescence

Abstract

The aim of this investigation is to analyse the educational task that verse-making schools do in Basque Country, focusing it on adolescence. The main idea that has been considerated as premise is the importance of collective identity in adolescence. We want to see whether verse-making schools offer useful social educational tools for adolescents, analysing them as agent of educational leisure. For that, 49 members of verse-making schools of Bizkaia did an exercise of free association, based on Grid Elaboration Method. The answers have been analysed with a lexical analysis, through the software Iramuteq. In addition, they answered some open questions, as a complementary fact. Qualitative methodology has been used, as well as a questionnaire. The outcomes of the analysis have confirmed the educative value of verse-making schools, as important agents on a psychosocial level in the field of educative leisure. Concretely, we have seen that verse-making schools, beyond the transmission of the basque culture and the cognitive work, contribute to the field of relationships, basing on peer transmission and self-challenge.