Abstract

AQUINO, Júlio Groppa. School violence and the crisis of teacher authority. Cad. CEDES [online]. 1998, vol.19, n.47, pp. 07-19. ISSN 0101-3262.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0101-32621998000400002.

The present article intends to discuss the relationship between the concepts of violence and authority within school context nowadays and, mainly, within teacher-student relationship. For that purpose, it proposes an institutional approach of school violence opposed to the classical approaches of the subject in focus, demonstrating the thesis according to which there is an amount of "productive" violence enclosed in the pedagogical action.

Keywords : violência escolar; relação professor-aluno; autoridade docente; instituição escola.