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CHAPTER FIVE: DATA ANALYSIS
Reflections on Ihemselves
Participants of the drama lesson reflected on different aspects of their life
following the sessions. Some reflected on their position in the world: "I need
to learn to live outside myself, not live boxed up. It made me think about my
relationship to the world. Any situation can have so many different outcomes.
We can turn things on their heads””* As this response is from a questionnaire,
it is not possible to probe further whether it was the feral child’s seclusion
from the world or the structures offered to challenge narratives in drama
and improvisations that triggered this reflection. Other questions concerning
the individual’s relationship to the world raised in the questionnaires were:
“what do I gain if I integrate?” and “how should I perceive the world? Is there
anything that can stop me?” Other reflections on themselves included “I feel
impotent when I approach someone who is so different from me”.”?’
Participants also reflected on a raised awareness of their surrounding that
the drama created in them.
As I was going home I realised that I started watching in a different way. I was
watching how people move. Things that just looked normal to me till then. As I was
standing in the crowd on the Metro I looked at how different people were, how they
behaved. Being in community — we are so afraid of connecting or touching each
other, all stuck in our own worlds.’**
Others reflected on the raised awareness of how past experiences influence us.
I remembered watching my little brother growing up, becoming a person. These
stories influenced how we related to this child, who was both a dog and a person,
and was neither of them as well. In our scene, I was looking at her scientifically,
but what would have happened if I would have been like a parent just observing
the child, would things have happened differently? What would I have done? I had
the strong feeling that our pre-existing knowledge, the things we know from before,
really influence us. Things could be different if we wouldn’t rely on them so much.’
Both the social and personal reflections and questions are concerned with
values and with the participants’ position in the world, and their relationship
to it. These are the territories DEs should work in. These responses also
suggest that the approach taken on in this cycle of the research has brought
the creation of DEs in LTD closer.
736 Q Wb.
737 Q Wa.
738 Q Wb.
739 F Wa.
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