Violência nas escolas : reflexões a partir do cotidiano da RME de Caxias do Sul - RS

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the manifestation of the violence in schools. The main objective was to understand the violence generating factors as well as the types of manifestations in the municipal education network in the city of Caxias do Sul, based on the students' representations. Several questions motivated the study, which was guided by the following research problem: what are the causes and manifestations of violence present in the municipal elementary schools in Caxias do Sul? The research setting has also considered results of CIPAVE, which is a program developed in the Municipal Network of Education of Caxias do Sul, as well as the daily life in which this kind violence occurs, that is, the schools. At this stage, the data provided by CIPAVE for the year 2014 were analyzed. Based on this approach, data referring to cases of violence were grouped and analyzed. In order to better understand this issue, after a State of the Art study about the violence environment, the option was to contemplate the point of view of the main actors who live, suffer or provoke school violence: the students. Therefore, the study applied 132 questionnaires with open and closed questions to students of final years in three different Elementary Schools. The empirical data was complemented by eight in-depth interviews with students from one of the participating schools. This data was organized, discussed and analyzed, according to different procedures, particularly using discursive textual analysis according to Moraes and Galiazzi (2011). The theoretical support for data interpretation was based on the contributions of the authors studied in the State of the Art, as well as on the theoretical groundwork of Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias, regarding the subject of violence and the civilizing process. In the latter case the concepts of relations of interdependence and social configuration were considered. The main results points of the research are presented in the following emergent categories: Naturalization and appropriation of violence; The relationships web in the socialization networks; and The alternatives for facing the violence. Based on this systematization it is possible to highlight that the subjects who experience violence in a school environment, directly and indirectly, are multiple. Thus, the importance of listening whom is involved is evident, in order to identify how they perceive and name the several forms of violence that they practice or suffer. How echoes of the empirical data appears the fragility and the distancing of the relations between the actors that compose the school and, also, the obscurity about what are the constitutes violence, because, sometimes, the naturalization of the concept leads to take influence the not perception of what would be an act of violence. These are the elements that justify and give relevance to the research carried out.