This paper shows an interdisciplinary approach on the problematic of violence in schools. Firstly, we discuss their possible definitions and characterizations, considering different dimensions, such as subjective violence, symbolic violence and objective, systemic or structural violence. The symbolic and social forms of institutional violence that permeates the school are analyzed, especially for their relations with the foucauldian notion of the disciplinary power. In contrast to the increasing strategies of control and segregation articulated to biopower that are present in the school, we highlight the importance of an education that values the active participation of young people in the construction of solutions to problems and conflicts present in social and pedagogy relations, as well as the possible contributions of psychoanalysis to this process.
Violence; School; Disciplinary power; Psychoanalysis