Violência escolar: entre teorias e experiências, um estudo na cidade de Santa Rita - PB

Abstract

Violence is a worldwide phenomenon, present everywhere, in all social classes and cultures. All human beings, regardless of age or sex, are prone to suffer from or practice acts of violence, however we cannot accept any manner of violence, seeking means to prevent, face and overcome such phenomenon. The educational context is not immune to it; projects need to be developed in order to prevent and minimize violence. This work is dedicated to reflecting on school violence, and how it manifests itself in such a context. The research took place in a school in the city of Santa Rita (PB), where we seeked projects that had been created to minimize violence and that succeed in fighting it. The main objective that we proposed to follow in this work was to analyze experiences against school violence that may have been multiplied by other educational professionals or schools. Starting from there, we created the following specific objectives: to discuss the phenomenon of school violence from the perspective of different authors who research this subject; to exhamine projects against violence in a school in the city of Santa Rita (PB), and to analyze the existing types of violence seen in contemporary societies, through bibliographical research on this area’s productions. This study was mainly developed from those of Andrade (2007), Debarbieux (2002), Charlot (2002), Libâneo, Oliveira, Toschi (2012). The concepts which substantiate this work theoretically are: school, violence, and school violence. The methodology used in this work was one of qualitative approach, exploratory in nature, and with field research. The procedures and tools that helped in the practical actions for the realization of the research were: documentation (registers and data), observation, questionary, and interviews. Among the results, we can highlight the fact that when a school considers both community and families as partners, helping in the elaboration of quality school work, when it places students in the center of their learning, giving them a say in the resolution of problems and conflicts within the school, then the violence is effectively facen, prevented and overcome.