Bullying escolar: uma violência silenciosa

Abstract

The violence in school spaces has become a common occurrence and your high incidence has generated damaging consequences to the psychosocial development of children and young people of school age. This is a major and worrying phenomenon in expansion: the bullying. This harmful practice is gaining more and more space in school environments and introduces harmful consequences for these spaces, as well as for building healthy relations between students. With the expansion of new technologies, such as cell phones, tablets and computers, the way the attacks occur also has been modified dramatically, hit children and young people so as to direct actual physical violence suffered by this subject. In this context, the present work has as main objective to discuss this problem doing a study about its causes, consequences and the measures that can be adopted in school environments to combat this phenomenon. As a theoretical basis for the study in embasamos in authors who set the theme, such as: Bock (2002), Lee (2005), Candau (1999), Bulgraeen (2010), Boulder (2009) and Silva (2010). These authors has been discussing this issue conceptually, seeking to highlight the troubles caused in the lives of victims, as well as the role of the family and the school in combating the phenomenon. The methodology of the research took place through a qualitative approach, using a questionnaire as an instrument with subjective questions, directed to teachers and students of an educational institution located in the municipality of Cuité de Mamanguape, State of Paraíba. After application of the questionnaires, analysis of responses, resulting in the understanding of the growing rate of bullying in the school space. The survey results demonstrated that the bullying is a form of violence that focuses directly on the lives of children and young people. In this context, even in the absence of an in-depth study of this phenomenon on the part of the teachers interviewed, these include the seriousness of the phenomenon, showing that there is a direct relationship between violent acts and the motivation of students, generating thus damage to the teaching process learning.