Bullying: uma brincadeira sem graça no contexto escolar - desafios para a gestão escolar

Abstract

This monograph, which presents a final work for Undergraduate Studies in Educational Management – EaD – from Federal University of Santa Maria and discussed about concepts and practices of the managers where it was possible to understand what bullying means and how it expresses itself in school environment. This study also wants to understand and investigate the challenges that the school management is to diagnose and combat bullying in private and public schools. It is a descriptive qualitative research, a case study, the data were collected through a questionnaire with eleven open questions related to bullying, aiming to identify and combat such violence within the school. From several inquiries about the bullying phenomenon in school sometimes was identified by education professionals as something that is part of the moment, sometimes it’s not identified. Bullying is characterized by acts of physical or moral violence in order to intimidate or assault, causing harm to their victims. Usually spread silently among those who are involved where the managers must mobilize themselves, as well as investment in training, the school community awareness, strengthening of values such as friendship, solidarity and respect.