Abstract
This article aims to know what teachers of public elementary school and student families understand about violence. As sources of information had used: questionnaire with teachers and interviews with families. These instruments made it possible to understand the meanings and meanings given to violence through the questions: 1) "What is violence?” 2) "Have you ever lived and what did you feel in a situation of violence?"; 3) "What actions of referrals in this situation of violence?". Constructive-Interpretative Methodology analyzed the results and the process of awareness had sought through three dimensions: thinking, feeling and acting. The families presented the violence pointing out the types of manifestation, passing through their own life history, presenting an ideologically naturalized (re) production. The school perceived violence as directed action to the other, as an instrument and typified. Given this, from the perspective of Critical Psychology we perceive a disarticulation of the meanings attributed to violence, between school and family, disfavouring the process of integral development of children and adolescents and awareness.
Keywords:
Psychology; family; violence