Teachers’ strategies and suggestions against school violence in primary and secondary schools from Colima, Mexico

Abstract

This article analyzes the way about school violence is produced and reproduced into an educational institution and how teachers successful strategies have applied to face them up in different municipalities in Colima. 14 teachers from elementary public schools and 35 teachers from public and private high school level were interviewed. Among the main conclusions were firstly, the conditions where they have their practice: the discomfort they experienced into the institution under many ways of violence, they could be between students and some cases to teachers too; the lack of tools to know how to solve these problems; the need to take training courses and know intervention strategies according with their needs and context, if were necessary get the support from students’ parents to attend the situations; secondly opinions are exposed, suggestions and resources in an intuitive and creative way, teachers use daily in the classrooms.

Keywords

• estrategias
• violencia escolar
• escuela primaria
• escuela secundaria
• práctica docente
• méxico.