Representação social da violência na escola

Abstract

This research was developed with the purpose of knowing the social representations on violence at school. This study involved 31 adolescents, students of a State school of Goiânia and 28 parents. The results show that for adolescents violence is connected to their life experiences and it s a phenomenon that takes part in school life daily. Violence at school is shown through fights and arguments as a way to dominate and clear up interpessoais conflicts. Drugs come as an element able to cause the violence as well as the interference of external groups - " the gangs "- at school, promote vandalism acts, robberies, fights and drugs traffics. There is a tendency of violence banalization as it becomes a manifestation of the self-assertion. In relation to parents, a difference between the feminine and masculine genders is observed. Mothers ignore violence at school and for fathers it is result of structural violence. Parents reaffirm the violence banalization when they justify those acts as children games manifestations. Therefore, the results allow to affirm that adolescents, for finding themselves close to the object, they have a functional representation nature about violence at school. Otherwise, parents have a normative representation nature of violence, because they are far from the object.