Relationship with Knowledge, School Failure/Success and Teaching-Learning Strategies

Abstract

During the 80’s, the Education and Training Research Centre, led by professor JackyBeillerot (University Paris X), began a study to analyze the appetite and desire for learning in students and teachers in several schools in Paris. This generated the theory known as relationship with knowledge, which is based on psychoanalysis. From a sociologic perspective, the Education, Socializing and Local Communities Research Center points out that, although social variables influence learning as a failure or an achievement, it is also necessary to take into account that the student is a subject whose desire or appetite to learn are heavily influenced by the world they live in. this means that the relationship with knowledge, themselves, others and the world allows understanding invisible elements that are present in school failure or success. In short, the relationship with knowledge is an education theory, the purpose of which is the psychoanalytic and sociologic understanding of school failure.