The Consequences of the Teacher’s Succumbing to Symbolic Violence as Suffered by the Student

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to show – on the basis of teachers’ narratives – the consequences that a teacher’s succumbing to symbolic violence in the educational field has on the student. This goal is accompanied by the need to highlight how the surveyed teachers describe the logic of the operation of this field, how they see their own position in it and what they perceive as their obligations related to it, all of which influences the way the students function within it.

Keywords

• student
• teacher
• teacher domination
• school hierarchy
• symbolic violence at school
• subordination of teachers