Sentido y sinsentido de la violencia escolar. Análisis cualitativo del discurso de estudiantes chilenos

The question for the school violence continues increasing the restlessness of the community and of the investigators, since the establishment of it as a disciplinary problem three decades ago. However, great part of these researches has been centered in the statistical incidence of the phenomenon and in its decisive factors, leaving aside in a large part of them, the actors’ own representations. The present article seeks to respond to the query for the sense of the school violence, extracted from a qualitative methodology study, where the speech and representations of Chilean high school students, considerate aggressive and problematic by their educational institutions, were analyzed