DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EXPERIENCED BY ADOLESCENTS: THE DISCOURSE OF WOMEN EDUCATORS

Objective: to learn the perception of women educators about domestic violence against adolescents. Method: this is a qualitative study, based on Paulo Freire’s Critical-Liberating Perspective, conducted with 20 women educators from a public elementary school located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. An interview was conducted from August to October 2017. Data was systematized based on the Collective Subject Discourse and analyzed in the light of theorist Paulo Freire. Results: the women educators’ speeches about domestic violence against adolescents revealed perceptions represented by the “Forms of violence against adolescents practiced in the domestic setting”; “Repercussions of domestic violence on health and education”; “Naturalization of domestic violence”; and “Reproduction of violence in the school space”. Conclusion: women educators recognize domestic violence as an intergenerational phenomenon that expresses itself in various ways and has repercussions on the physical and mental health of adolescents with repercussions on school performance and interpersonal relationships, including with peers and teachers.


INTRODUCTION
Violence against children and adolescents represents a public health problem with serious compromises on physical and mental health, as well as for human development, and therefore essential actions to address this problem, which occurs predominantly in the domestic space.This context points to the need for articulated strategies, especially in education settings, as they are spaces where they meet most of the time.
Violence against children and adolescents is a matter of concern worldwide, especially in view of its higher incidence at home, where they should be protected.According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), every seven minutes a person in childhood or adolescence is killed in the world as a result of violence. 1In the US, the mortality rate from violence in this age group ranges from 5 to 14%. 2 In Brazil, in 2012 alone, there were 95,000 cases of aggression against children and adolescents who died. 3 These cases commonly occur in the home setting, as indicated by a Brazilian research conducted in a public school with 239 students, whose report of intrafamily violence was present in 60.7% of the adolescents. 4A study that analyzed data from 171 countries also confirmed that the main perpetrators of this type of violence are the family members. 5onsidering that the family is the primary institution with the duty to protect and care for children and adolescents, experiencing domestic violence, especially by their legal guardians, is a paradox.This is because the family represents the primary source of values, beliefs and attitudes, being the first reference of interaction and relationship for their children, which from then on may form new bonds.The construction of these elementary relationships is fundamental to human development, since part of each person's identity is related to what is transmitted from fathers and mothers to their children. 6Likewise, the school is a place of great influence on the formation of individuals and also has the responsibility to ensure that children and adolescents are safe and free from maltreatment and must report to the Guardian Council the identified cases, as indicated by the Child and Adolescent Statute (Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, ECA). 7t is noteworthy that experiencing domestic abuse also damages health and education.] The physical and mental illness of children and adolescents, with clear and direct implications on the behavior in the school space, points to the need for education and health professionals to be prepared to recognize and deal with the situation.In this perspective, we highlight the Health at School Program (Programa Saúde na Escola, PSE), established in 2007, by Decree No.6,286, whose purpose is to articulate health actions in the field of education, since educators, due to their closer relationship with the students, are in a strategic position to recognize the problem. 14hus, it is essential to understand the perception of the educators about the phenomenon of domestic violence in adolescents in order to guide the practice of these professionals and those working in the health area to identify the problem.The study is also relevant from the premise that education intervenes in collective life, which contributes to the construction of a free and fair society. 15Thus, considering that domestic violence represents a form of domination still prevailing in our society, the salience of the relationship between educator-pupil is considered for the suspicion and identification of this problem, an essential condition for facing and overcoming this reality.In this sense, the study consisted of apprehending the perception of women educators about domestic violence against adolescents.

METHOD
This is a study with a qualitative approach, based on Paulo Freire's Critical-Liberating Perspective, especially on its political and axiological principles.These are based on the idea that education is a form of intervention in the collective life, in the sense of maintaining or overcoming a given reality, as well as diffusing and producing values that govern people's lives. 15his research was conducted with 20 women educators from a public elementary school located in the outskirts of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.The rapprochement with the teachers was supported by the Curriculum Action in Community and Society (Ação Curricular em Comunidade e em Sociedade, ACCS) entitled "Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to the health problems related to violence", which is part of the curricular structure of undergraduate courses at the Federal University of Bahia.This component favored the contact with the women educators, since during the period from 2013 to 2017, extension actions were developed for the students, having the following as themes of discussion: use/abuse of alcohol and other drugs, sexuality, bullying and domestic violence.
All permanent staff teachers who had been teaching at least six months at the school were invited to participate in the study.They received clarification as to the object and objectives of the research, its voluntary nature, the right to withdraw at any time, the absence of material or financial benefits in return for the collaboration, the guarantee of privacy and confidentiality of information and other ethical precepts contained in resolution 466/2012 of the National Health Council.There was no refusal by the guests, and all signed the Free and Informed Consent Form (FICF).A professional was not found after two contact attempts.
In the matrix project, characterizing the students of the locus-school, showed that 53.97% were men, which is why the terminology related to male students was adopted throughout the study.
Data collection was performed using the interview technique.The individual interviews were guided by a semi-structured form containing questions related to the sociodemographic aspects and the following guiding question: What is your perception about domestic violence experienced by adolescents?This stage took place from August to October 2017 in a reserved room at the locusschool in order to promote a space of privacy, trust and respect between interviewer and collaborators.
The statements were recorded, transcribed in full with the permission of the collaborators and systematized through the Collective Subject Discourse.This method consists in the grouping of speeches in order to construct a unique, first-person discourse so as to synthesize the understanding of a collectivity.From the transcribed interviews, the Central Ideas (CIs) and their Key Expressions (KEs) were removed.The CI succinctly names the nuclear meaning of the speech, whereas the KEs are the lines that compose it.It is noteworthy that the data were validated by the collaborators, who received codes with an "E" from women Educators and the number referring to the transcription order of the interviews.Finally, the speech was interpreted and grounded according to Paulo Freire's Critical-Liberating Perspective.

RESULTS
Of the 20 collaborators interviewed, most were women (70%), an event by which the terminology was adopted in the feminine and, for example, the expression "women educators" means both female and male educators.All of them were teachers, and their predominant employment relationship was that of state public servants, employed on a 20-hour (45%) or 40-hour (55%) weekly basis.The time spent in education ranged from four to 37 years and, in that institution, from six months to 26 years.

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All had a college degree and almost all, a specialization (90%).Regarding knowledge about violence, a little more than half (55%) mentioned that the theme was not addressed in undergraduate studies, in contrast to the large portion (90%) who stated that they worked on this object during their specialization, especially in the curricular components attended (20%).
Regarding the collective discourse, it reveals that, according to the women educators' perception, domestic violence experienced by school adolescents is based on four central ideas: expression of domestic violence in physical, psychological and negligent forms; repercussions of domestic violence on health and education; naturalization of domestic violence by adolescents; and reproduction of violence in the school space.

Central Idea 1: Forms of violence against adolescents in the home setting
Women educators perceive the domestic violence experienced by schoolchildren as a phenomenon expressed in various ways, referring, for example, to physical aggression, name calling and affective neglect, with food and education.
Domestic violence is expressed in the physical form, in the aggressive way of treating the adolescent.However, violence is not only expressed in the body.I see violence as an abuse of physical but also psychological nature.The way you talk can be a kind of violence [...] when using the aggressive and authoritative tone of voice.I also consider violence to live in an insulting setting, which requires exerting screaming power.We realize that many students take on responsibilities that are not age-appropriate, such as taking care of the home and the siblings.What I notice a lot here is the neglect of the future of their children, because it is difficult to get their parents in school to accompany them.They have parents who stop sending their children to school; others who drive them out, leaving them with nothing to eat.Many do not receive love, affection, from the family and I think this is the greatest example of violence.

Central Idea 2: Repercussions of domestic violence on health and education
For the women educators, the experience of domestic violence has repercussions on the physical and mental health of adolescents, from bruising to suicidal behavior, as well as impairments regarding school performance.
Certainly, violence leaves marks on the adolescents and hinders their development.This is notorious!The repercussions are not only on the physical, such as the black eye, but also psychological, emotional.I realize that people who have suffered violence are withdrawn.Many have low self-esteem, become bewildered, cut themselves, attempt suicide.All that results in the lack of interest in their studies: they no longer want to know about school, they end up losing their grades.I can't say if being responsible for taking care of the siblings is violence, but I see that it brings damage to the studies, such as lack of concentration, and takes away the right of the person to enjoy the adolescent phase.[...] I believe these situations are related to family problems.

Central Idea 3: Naturalization of domestic violence
The teachers' discourse also reveals the perception of domestic violence as a naturalized behavior by adolescents, a situation that influences the acceptance of the domestic aggressions.Given the understanding of violence as a culturally accepted conduct, the study warns of the difficulty of the adolescents to recognize abuse as such, contributing to the persistence of disrespectful relationships.
Here [at school] we have violence 24 hours a day.The habit of talking aggressively, beating and catching is so natural that they do not realize that they are being violent with their peers and teachers.[...] it expresses itself in the way they talk to their colleagues: cursing each other, shouting 6/12 at each other.They think this is normal treatment.The teenager first needs to recognize himself in a situation of violence.Sometimes the family itself is unaware of what violence is and therefore needs the other to identify.Most of the time, teenagers catch each other and think it's normal and so don't comment on this.I believe that the parents who attack themselves are also victims of their lives.And that goes from generation to generation.I think family violence is so natural that it is difficult to intervene.

Central Idea 4: Reproduction of violence in the school space
According to the women educators' understanding, the violence seized in the domestic space is perceived, naturalized and reproduced in the interaction with the other in the various spaces of coexistence, such as the school.The speech also refers to the transgenerational character of this problem.

I note that the aggressiveness of teenagers is a reflection of what they live at home. Children copy what their parents do. They are role models for children. So, their aggressive way of behaving with their colleagues is often a warning, because what we realize is that they bring to the classroom what they experience at home. When they have intolerant people at home, they usually end up being intolerant at school as well.
If parents are violent in their way of speaking and acting, they also do so with their peers.The way in which they treat each other verbally, sometimes aggressively, with profanity, may be the result of this family life that many of them have.The physical aggressions are also reproduced at school.The world they live in is so violent that even jokes are beating.They end up projecting this violence they suffer on another colleague because they have not learned to communicate, to reflect.[...] When you have a conflict at school with your classmates, they will soon hit.[...] They are aggressive not only with their peers, but with their teacher as well.[...] became victims of this process.

DISCUSSION
The women educators' discourse reveals the perception of domestic violence as a phenomenon expressed in physical, psychological and negligent forms, since they understand that adolescents can live in a domestic space permeated by name calling, shouting, verbal and physical aggression, as well as situations.lack of love, affective and material attention and having to assume their own responsibilities for adults, an event that may deprive them of the rights advocated by the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, ECA), such as leisure, sports and community life.These findings are in agreement with national studies, also with educators, who mention physical and verbal aggression and neglect as forms of domestic violence. 16][19][20] The fact that the teachers perceive the different facets of domestic violence experienced by their students is in line with Freire's assumptions, since it defends the need for the educator to understand the "discourse of the body", the features of the face, the gestures, many times, even stronger than orality.The school curriculum should not be purely based on syllabus content, and should take into consideration all the subjects involved in the educational process and their daily experiences, as they have a strong influence on world views and identities, which consequently affects learning. 21mportantly, in addition to the physical, psychological and negligent forms revealed by the interviewees and corroborated by national and international studies, adolescents may also experience sexual abuse.These typifications are legitimized as forms of violence by both the World Health Organization (WHO) and by legal provisions that guarantee the rights of children and adolescents

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in Brazil. 7However, the non-consideration of sexual abuse by the women educators warns of their difficulty in glimpsing the possibility that students are experiencing such abuse in their homes.3] This may be related to the fact that they do not assume such an eventuality, as the collective discourse pointed out.
It is important to take into account the possibility that they may have avoided discussion on this subject, perhaps because they consider it more invasive and more serious.However, the lack of discourse of the women educators about sexual violence can be glimpsed from the understanding that it is impossible for education to remain neutral in the face of certain realities. 15he discourse also denotes the perception of the women educators about the harmful nature of domestic violence, with serious implications for the health and education of adolescents.The study evidences the teachers' understanding that the experience of abuse leaves body marks, such as bruising, and triggers psychological damage, such as depressive and suicidal behavior.These consequences of domestic violence are also perceived by health professionals working in Family Health Units (Unidades de Saúde da Família, USFs). 24hen it comes to mental illness, the teaching perception of self-inflicted injuries is worth mentioning.This is because the experience tends to manifest itself in the subject's body, affecting its corporeality, 25 which consists in the capacity of the individual to feel and use the body as a tool of manifestation and interaction with the world. 26An example of this is the self-inflicted injury, defined as the act of hurting oneself with the intention of relieving tensions or feelings that present varying degrees of intensity and may occur in any age group, but it has been more frequent among adolescents.This form of self-inflicted aggression, referred to in the discourse through suicidal act, often occurs by a radical attempt to break with a pain, in which the person is no longer able to deal with situations that cause them pain, as in the case of pain.domestic violence.
The discourse also reveals the perception of domestic violence as an offense that compromises school performance and the full development of the adolescent's potential, since learning difficulties have a direct impact on school performance. 279] From Freire's perspective, there is no doubt that the conditions in which students live reflect on their understanding of their own world, their ability to learn and also to respond to life's challenges.
Another repercussion found by the women education professionals is the aggressive behavior of the adolescents with their peers, which they understand as a warning sign for the experience of domestic violence.According to the discourse, this way of interacting with the universe is established from what is apprehended in their relationships, especially with the family.This is because the family is where the first relationship of integration of human beings begins, which interferes in the formation of the behavioral patterns, which are transmitted from fathers to daughters. 16Thus, the adolescents' ways of acting are directed by what they consider to be natural, thus not perceiving their attitudes as violence.This trivialization is corroborated by a research carried out in different regions of Brazil to reveal that, despite claiming to live in hostile settings and with frequent situations of violence, few realize themselves in this situation. 30he lack of recognition that their actions are violent causes adolescents to reproduce it in interpersonal relationships, such as school.A research conducted with young people and educators from public and private schools in three municipalities of the states of Ceará, Minas Gerais and São Paulo, which aimed to analyze the meanings that violence takes on in different social contexts and the ways in which it manifests itself in daily school life, signaled to the behavioral changes due to domestic violence that can be expressed through juvenile delinquency. 31n Sweden, it was found that adolescents who experienced physical and emotional domestic violence and/or witnessed household conflicts between their parents were more likely to practice and be victims of bullying. 32Research studies conducted in Cúcuta and China also showed cases of aggression against teachers perpetrated by students who suffered domestic violence 19,33 Similar findings were found in research studies conducted in the Pacific Island, New Zealand, and Europe of juvenile offenders, 34 alerting to the harms of experiencing domestic violence.
Thus, it is important to pay attention to the way these students are projecting these disrespectful relationships between their peers and other individuals around them, such as the women teachers.Thus, it is essential to rethink the school dynamics in order to invest in pedagogical practices that include dialogs about family and harmonious coexistence, including offering these adolescents other models of relationships, based on respect and solidarity among peers.These ideas are also defended by the axiological principle, which starts from the premise that education must produce and disseminate positive values that contribute to the humanization and solidarity of the subjects. 15uch pedagogical/dialogical activities to stimulate solidarity, respect for diversity and cooperation can be carried out from the PSE which, in its guidelines, provides for the inter-sectoral expansion of the actions performed by the health and education systems with a view to comprehensive health care for children and adolescents, as well as the promotion of a culture of peace, thus strengthening the articulation of knowledge between the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS) and the Public Education Networks. 7Thus, the joint actions of these two spheres can promote communication, referral and resolution among schools and health facilities, ensuring attention to people, especially adolescents, in situations of violence.
In this process of health promotion, Nursing deserves attention, especially for integrating the reference team in the FHS and often assuming their coordination.Although diverse research studies indicate that there is little action in addressing and preventing domestic violence, the FHS professionals have been demonstrating their ability to recognize the vulnerability of adolescents to practice and suffer abuse.Therefore, in view of that scenario, it is essential to promote alternative and creative practices that value youth protagonism with a view to promoting health and a culture of peace. 35This new perspective on adolescent education can be used as a strategy to disrupt the naturalization of domestic violence, however established the family model has been.Precisely considering such realities, it is necessary to constantly fight against any form of oppression, in order to propose an educator's training based on an ethics of the development of human life in its various potentialities, promoting dignity and promoting the responsible autonomy of the subjects in relation to themselves and the community. 15he study is limited by the low potential of generalization, as it is carried out in a single public school in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and the results presented may differ in other institutions depending on the social and community context in which it is inserted.Moreover, the clipping of public schools may not represent the scenario of private institutions, so as to influence the experiences lived by students and women educators about domestic violence.

CONCLUSION
Women educators perceive domestic violence as a phenomenon with consequences for physical and mental health, as well as for the educational process of adolescents, who experience it in physical, psychological and neglect forms.Although sexual abuse has not been mentioned, the teachers express the complex nature of the phenomenon, understanding its roots in the process of 9/12 naturalization of the disrespectful relationships experienced by adolescents within the family and reproduced in other spaces of interaction with each other, such as the school.
The perception of these professionals about domestic violence leads to the need for spaces in the school setting that transcends the contents, contemplating the affective and social demands perceived by the women educators, as advocated by Paulo Freire.Therefore, these spaces should provide the adolescent public with references of respectful and loving relationships, essential for this group to fully develop their potentials.
Therefore, articulation with other institutions is essential in order to provide opportunities for these spaces.In the meantime, the scenario of the FHS stands out, especially through the PSE, revealing the interface between the areas of health sciences and education.Therefore, the PSE is configured as an important means of support for the women educators, including investment in the process of approximation and understanding of the family dynamics of adolescents, as well as thinking of collective intervention strategies with schoolchildren aiming at a life free of violence.