VIOLENCE IN THE BASIC SCHOOL: a case study involving public and private networks in Palmas - TO

Abstract

This article deals with violence in schools, which is a phenomenon that has long permeated Western society and has been the subject of several discussions and research. In this monograph a comparative study of two elementary schools in the State of Tocantins was elaborated: The Municipal School Estevão de Castro and the Baptist College of Palmas. The respondents of the research were the employees of these institutions who were consulted in order to conform the registered violence rates, and to relate types, groups involved, locations of major incidents in the school and the frequency with which they occur, as well as to understand the relations of the indices with the environment of each institution, which were contextualized based on the type of education offered, type of public attended and location. It was found that although there are many distinctions between schools, the rates of violence in every sense addressed are very similar. The main results were: that the groups most involved in both institutions are the students who practice the three main types of violence among themselves.

KEYWORDS: Education; School Violence; Students; Teachers; Incivilities.