Perception of school violence in kindergarten students

Abstract

The paper presents partial results of a study 98 children of five and six 6 years old who are studying the level of preschool education in third grade at two institutions in different contexts. An instrument that was adapted from the CUVE - applied that allows to measure the perception of school violence observed students (questionnaire on school violence). In this instrument are considered various types of violence as physical violence, verbal violence, violence by exclusion and disruption in the classroom. Adaptation which was held and after pilot exercise in a group of third grade preschool features similar to those who were subjects of research was an adaptation to 16 items of the 31 which has the original instrument. A scale that worked with the students adapted to its special features and was carried out through an iconographic scale. Established a position from the positivist paradigm of quantitative approach, i.e. want to study what type of violence is mostly perceived by children of preschool education since it is part of the hypothesis of that physical violence direct is which is more perceived by subject infants in the study. Results obtained up to this phase of the research show that children who attend preschool education and were partakers of the inquiry is not physical violence that prevails in their perception.