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ITALIAN DISCUSSION LIST ON T.O.

Technical co-ordination by Paolo Patruno.
The list provides a confrontation around the T.O. issues, a search for information and so on. You can send a message that will be spread off to all the participants in list, at the moment around 120. You'll receive all the messages sent by others. What themes? All concerning T.O. method: bibliography, theoretical discussion, methodological and historical comments, etc...
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Some questions appeared in the list:

1. Is T.O. effective? For what problems and situations? How is it possible to have a less subjective evaluation? How is it possible to give a more scientific assessment? Is it possible? Is it desirable? Or it's matter of art and so neither measurable nor valuable?

2. In Italy we often work with students, teen-agers, people in difficulty (drug-addicts, mentally disabled people in particular)but on demand by the Institutions, not by the "oppressed" themselves.
   It would be possible to have a direct request? It makes sense to do such interventions?
   What are the risks? And what the attention that an institutional demand requires, in order do not distort the sense of our work?

3. With what other approaches T.O. can interact with effectiveness and with what cannot? (pedagogical, psychological, therapeutic, psycho-sociological, artistic, sociological, socio-political approaches, etc.)

4. Forum-Theatre seems more suitable to find short-term tactics rather long-term strategies. How to avoid that the Forum structure itself reduce the focus and the possibility of action? How to stimulate the middle-long-term reflection? How to adapt the Forum Model and the Joker's style to these needs?

5. How T.O. could be useful in the school system? How the oppression at school appears? One needs particular adaptation? What kind of roles are plaid, who oppresses who, in what way?