Abstract

CHAVEZ GONZALEZ, Mónica Lizbeth. School Violence from the Perspective of Children in Central Mexico. RMIE [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.74, pp.813-835. ISSN 1405-6666.

The objective of this article is to analyze the daily violence at schools in the northeastern region of central Mexico, from the perspective of children who are involved as participants and witnesses. In recent years, drug trafficking and the policies of federal militarization have affected various areas of social interaction in the region. One such area has been school, where subtle violence and harassment occur on a daily basis, affecting interaction and learning while revealing the lack of effective mechanisms for conflict resolution. By means of a qualitative study of an ethnographic type, an analysis was made of the perceptions, experiences, and strategies of solutions of the young population in rural schools in the northeast part of the country. The study shows how schools contain, generate, and reproduce the social violence that affects the entire school community, and especially the children.

Keywords : school violence; perceptions; children; rural schools; sociocultural context.

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