Violencia escolar en cuatro instituciones educativas del Magdalena medio : una mirada de los contextos explicativos

Abstract

This research aims to understand the explanatory contexts of school violence in four educational institutions in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia. By means of a qualitative research in which a questionnaire and a focal group with students, teachers and participants have been implemented, an analysis of the characteristics of school violence in educational institutions is made, its main actors and the differences identified in urban and rural areas. Based on this, some reflections are put into consideration on the contexts that allow to explain school violence and, in addition, understand it as a matter of public health. On the one hand, the percentage of victims of school violence is almost 25 per cent in the four institutions and, on the other, the attention generated is insufficient on the part of teachers and other authority figures. From the perspective of explanatory contexts, it is identified that school violence in the four institutions is mainly related to the political and cultural context due to the conditions associated with the armed conflict in the region that led to naturalized practices of violence; Among these, particularly sexist cultural dynamics are reproduced that affect the way in which the different actors who participated in the research relate to each other.