Family, boredom and school violence: adolescent voices

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Diogo Acioli
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Candido Alberto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/investigacaoeducacional.2017.3438

This research focused on the dynamics of a triangle: recomposed families, lack of curriculum meaningfulness, causing boredom, as well as violence in an adolescent school, located in Brasília’s periphery, Brazil, with drug and weapon traffic as background. This study has ethnographic features, having lasted over one year of immersion in the field. It employed semi-structured interviews, focus groups, observation and document analysis. Results show that a selective curriculum divided students in winners and losers. Adolescents looking for being protagonists, autonomous and in search of their own identity were compelled to adjust themselves to passive schooling. Most of them declared the impossibility of understanding the contents almost classes had started. Consequently, boredom predominated as an intellectual empty space, filled by violent acts and joking. Around a half of the body lived in a recomposed family. However, data revealed that violence was not a result of this condition. Short time for living together with their parents, as well as inside family aggression led to school violence. The new principal and his team adopted projects and activities for overcoming these problems with relative success, if compared to the beginning of that academic year.