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Violence, society and school: from refusing to dialogue to the failure of words

This article addresses violence in capitalist society and in school, discussing on how it's published on the media and how teachers deal with it. Considering the students at matter, this paper focuses on the need of communication and the difficulties lived by these developing individuals, in a situation where the school and the teacher don't possess clarity of the importance of communication as a form of symbolization and representation. In many cases, they allow violent actions to be substituted by words. School environment is a privileged place for words and revealing social problems. With the desire to eliminate violence, the media and the State end up naturalizing it, by impinging violence as something trivial and legitimizing violence while violating its citizen's basic rights, respectively.

violence; aggression; society; school; media


Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Social Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (CFCH), Av. da Arquitetura S/N - 7º Andar - Cidade Universitária, Recife - PE - CEP: 50740-550 - Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil
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