During his work with primary and secondary schools in Israel, Jeroen M. Petri combined diagnostic work with gathering information concerning the social dynamics between pupils, teachers and parents, and developed a method of approaching problems based on interactive questionnaires.
The DYAL approach focuses on the way one looks at a situation and the way questions are asked. This approach enables the psychologist to map social dynamics between pupil, teacher and parents. As a result, constructive changes can be brought about in problematic situations between pupils, parents and teachers, as well as in classrooms described as ‘impossible’ to manage.
Jeroen M. Petri (1948) is a Dutch social en educational psychologist. This book is based on his experience as a psychologist in the Netherlands and Israel and his research at schools in the Ukraine.
This publication is a partly revised and condensed summary of ‘Bij haar kan ik niet leren!’ (I can’t learn when she’s here), published in 1999, ISBN 9035220153 and ‘De Groene Draad’ (the Green Wire), a study published in Dutch and Russian in 2004, ISBN 9090175601.
Copies of this publication can be ordered by contacting the author at
petrigriega@hetnet.nl.
