Abstract

MAYORA, Freddy  and  CASTILLO, Matilde. Construction of violence from the subjectivity of primary school students. SAPIENS [online]. 2012, vol.13, n.2, pp.69-98. ISSN 1317-5815.

The objective of this research was to construct the violence from the subjectivities of primary school students. The analysis of the results were done using the ecological systems theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). The methodology was a descriptive field research, with a case-study approach. The study group consisted of 52 students, between 10 and 13 years old from two schools, one in the parish of “La Pastora” and the other in the parish “El Valle” in the municipality of “Libertador” Caracas, Capital District, to whom were applied a CVCE Questionnaire (Characteristics of Violence at School). It was observed that students perceive violence at school and home in a similar way: physical aggression at home, yelling, threatening, ignoring the child; physical aggression in school, teasing and abuse; in terms of the teacher shouts, ignore. In conclusion, it seems that the education received by the generation of parents and teachers is full of violent patterns; they repeated from one generation to another. It has to start practicing a better way of relating to children, where obedience is not the product of the abuse.

Keywords : primary; education; violence; school; home; subjectivity.