Teachers' imaginaries about conflicts and violence at school

Imaginários de professores sobre os conflitos e violências na escola

Resumo

In this article, we show teachers' imaginations about the violence and conflicts that occur in their relationships with students in the classroom. The data presented make up part of the corpus of the master's research carried out by the authors in 2015, in which twenty teachers from a public elementary school were interviewed, focusing on characteristic elements of their daily experiences. The organization method of the teachers' reports was supported by the Content Analysis technique, through which we organized the recurrent categories on the motivations of conflicts and violence. The results of this incursion revealed that violence occurs in the daily lives of these teachers and their imaginations point out that a significant part of the violence that erupts stems from their attempts to standardize and shape student behavior to school doctrines, however, student refusals collide with ass intentions of the teachers, which entails, in a certain proportion, conflicts and consequent violence reverberated in the tensions of the school routine.