O bullying escolar e a formação do professor na licenciatura em pedagogia: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This dissertation was developed in the Master’s Program in Education of the Universidade do Oeste Paulista – Concentration area: Education – Line of research: Training and action of teaching professionals and educational practices. In a teaching environment, whether in pre-school or at the highest levels of training, bullying is a common practice. Of english origin, the term “bullying” came to be used by many countries as the conscious and deliberate desire to mistreat and put a person under stress. Given this violence, some questions arise: are undergraduate students being prepared in their course for awareness, prevention and coping with school bullying? Will they, as future teachers, know how to identify an episode of school bullying and intervene in order to avoid further consequences? Thus, the general objective of this research was to analyze the perception of students in pedagogy degree about the phenomenon of school bullying and teacher training. And as specific objectives: to analyze the insertion of the school bullying theme in the Political Project of the Course (PPC) and Teaching Plans of the degree in Pedagogy; to characterize the notion of school bullying of the freshmen and the graduate of the Pedagogy Degree course and to verify the possible differences in the way of conceptualizing school bullying of the freshman and the graduate of the Pedagogy Degree course. This research was developed from the perspective of a qualitative approach, with exploratory character, being a Case Study type, having as participants students from the 3rd and 7th terms of the Pedagogy degree course of a private IES in the interior of the state of São Paulo. It is based on authors of the psychology of morality from the perspective of cognitive-evolutionary theory. The methodological procedures involved: documents made available by the course, semi-structured questionnaire made available on Google Forms. For the analysis of the quantitative data, the Electronic Spreadsheet MS - Excel was used and for the categorization of the qualitative responses, the Discursive Text Analysis was used. When analyzing the concept of bullying, of both terms, it can be seen that, in general, both have knowledge that is close to the literature. On the other hand, it was possible to identify that some students use this concept very close to common sense. This knowledge occurs through the media, lectures, school environment and college. In the concept of bullying, there was a significant difference between the two terms, with the 3rd term showing a more specific indication for repetitive acts. This is an important factor in differentiating between bullying and other types of violence. Although it is not formally mentioned in the PPC and in the Teaching Plans, some teachers comment in their disciplines about school bullying, which in the students opinion is fundamental for teacher training. This leads us to emphasize the importance of a more specific knowledge about bullying by the school community, with a view to its prevention and coping, for a more democratic and respectful coexistence in the school environment.