Bullying e as relações de gênero presentes no espaço escolar

Abstract

The study aims to analyze the interfaces between bullying and gender relations in the school context, identifying it among boys and girls of elementary school in a school on the outskirts of the city of Santa Maria-RS. The study included 95 children of both sexes from 4th to 8th grades of a state school from the outskirts of the city Santa Maria-RS.The study made use of the questionnaire named "Peer Violence”, validated for the Portuguese population in 2006, and adapted for this study. In addition to the questionnaire, there were 14 observations, every other day of the week (Monday, Thursday and Friday) in the course of a month, and each one had the time of 2h duration and last conversations informally with teachers and the school management team.The results showed that bullying is distinguished mainly by verbal aggression, and that the school recess is the time when these acts of violence spread. According to victims, the perpetrators are mostly male, older and in from the same class, tending to act alone. Spectators also saw the playground aggression by aggressors who acted alone. The aggressor say that aggression takes place in the classroom, where the victims are also male. Thus, the study revealed that boys are the main protagonists of bullying either as victim, spectator or aggressor. Nevertheless, one cannot neglect the role of girls, since they do not stop doing it, but they do it more quietly and unnoticed in the eyes of others. The bullying situations are intertwined with gender relations. Thus, we can understand wich representations of gender permeate daily fron/ to students where boys and girls are educated differently and occupy different spaces in school as a result. Finally, the study enables us to draw attention to what is culturally assigned to women and men, and to characterize then and how they practice bullying in schools.