VIOLENCE AMONG LEARNERS AT SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

School is a fundamental socialization context for individuals. It is as an institution intended to prepare individuals for life and adulthood and make them intellectually reflexive. Since this great institutions know various problems that hid their role in building future citizens,in this dissertation we present one of the serious problems that destroy our schools today that is Violence. This work aims at raising attention to this phenomenon and the most important is to propose some solutions to reduce it. The objective of this study, is toconstruct a clear definitions to Violence and School Violence and analyses its origin in the human being using different explanatory theories, determines the main interrelated factors that lead the learners implicate themselves in antisocial behaviours, presents its forms and highlight its negative effects in teaching and learning and finally suggests some strategies and practices for intervention. Through our objective we suggest some hypotheses: first violence exists in our high schools and takes different forms then, it has negative effects on teaching and learning and decreases our schools’ effectiveness and finally since the violent incidents inside our schools are really increased we hypothesise that there is no serious work for prevention. To achieve the aforementioned objective we should use data gathering tools which are two questionnaires one for teachers and the other one for students. Thus, we work on this tool to examine the teachers and students feedback. The research findings go hand by hand with our hypotheses which emphasize that violence exists in our high schools, impact teaching and learning process and preventions have to take place to reduce it.