ALVES, Renato, CUBAS, Viviane de Oliveira, RUOTTI, Caren.
Violence in schools: a guide for parents and teachers. Sao Paulo: Andhep: Printing Bureau of the State are Paulo, 2006. The book in question meets results of research and surveys conducted by the Center for Studies of Violence (NEV) from Sao Paulo, within the program Cepid, of the Foundation of refuge à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo - Fapesp, dealing with
schools in areas with high rates of criminal violence. In the first chapter, Ms Cubas addresses some questions of searches performed in the United States, France and Brazil,
based on author as Debarbieux, Charlot, Flannery, Sposito, Cardia, Camacho, Aquino and Santos. The definition of violence at
school for being a broad term that ranges from serious attacks by small incivilidades is accepted by a few researchers. The emergence of more severe forms of violence, the increasingly lower age of the students involved in cases of violence, the action of external agents that take up space in school repetition and accumulation of small cases that are not necessarily violent, but that create a sensation the permanent threat, are the new forms such as violence is manifesting nowadays in our schools. The second chapter, conflict and insecurity school in the areas east and south of the city of São Paulo, written by Caren Ruotti is based on studies by NEV / USP in public schools located in remote areas of this municipality, in the years 2002 and 2003. The versam written about the exposure of the subject given by the media and their implications, the methods of security adopted in schools, participation in school and the family of the young community, the risks of entrono school and the frequency of
teachers and students . Renato Alves in the
chapter "The schools in neighborhoods with high rates of violence: a vision of the teachers, brings some aspects related to violence in schools raised by teachers, as well as issues about problems in the region, working conditions, public policies, unemployment and teacher training. Teachers and teachers surveyed raised, also, the issue of violence in the school environment emphasizing the action of the drug trafficking as one of the main problems that lead to violence in school. Caren Ruotti returns to write about violence in school at 4 ° chapter, "Exposure to school violence and perceptions about their causes." The analysis of it is based on surveys of popular opinion, held by NEV / USP since 1999, on violence in schools, but specifically the data corresponding to the years 2001 and 2003, in three municipalities are Paulo, Jd. Angela, Capão Redondo and Jd. San Luiz. The author makes an analysis of data in relation to the causes of violence in general, which are demonstrated through tables that outline clearly the views of interviewees. Bullying: Moral Harassment in school is another chapter approached by Viviane Cubas took that as a basis bibliographic survey on bullying, understood here as cases of aggressive behaviors and repetitive. In the last chapter Caren Ruotti finishes the discussion of the subject by a discussion with the other chapters, which showed the different ways that violence is manifested in the school identifying that the same applies to felonies and mainly mild attacks (physical or verbal ) and threats. Attachments come as an example of working the issues of the subject in school. The attached a discusses the mediation and presented a plan to begin a programme of mediation at the school. Already Annex two brings the experience of a speech that was to the proposed deployment of an experimental project for mediation of conflicts in middle school, in which pupils themselves were trained to become mediators.
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