Abstract

PINHEIRO, Francisco Pablo Huascar Aragão; BELO, Raquel Pereira; FEIJAO, Ana Raquel Cardoso  and  PEREIRA, Ana Alice. Characteristics of Violence against Public School Teachers. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.spe1, pp.1-12. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v20iesp1.e8827.

Teaching work in Brazil suffers from structural issues, including school violence. Brazilian and international investigations on this topic tend to focus on the aggressions suffered by students. National surveys on teachers lack information on general victimization rates, the types of aggressions suffered, the perpetrators of violent acts, and the predictor variables. The research presented here had as objectives: 1) to determine the nature and dimension of the violence targed at teachers, considering the type of aggression and the respective perpetrator, and 2) to analyze demographic aspects that are associated with the reported victimizations. 744 teachers, from nursery school and elementary education from public schools in a municipality in Ceará, participated voluntarily in a self-applicable standardized instrument. The results revealed that 62.2% of teachers reported at least one form of victimization and, of these, 42.5% indicated having suffered violent acts from students. More than half of the sample reported at least one act of verbal harassment; almost a third said they had suffered property attacks; 21.5% said they had been victims of physical aggression, and 8.6% said they had received offers of drugs. The findings indicated that there was a greater likelihood of men, as well as teachers working in elementary school stage II and teachers with effective contracts, reporting a higher frequency of violent acts. There were no differences in victimization rates when observing the race and ethnicity of the participants, except for individuals who declared themselves asian, indigenous, or who preferred not to give this information, for whom there was a greater incidence of sexist insults.

Keywords : school violence; teachers; public schools; predictors.

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