School Conflictivity in Chile. A comparison of the perceptions of members of the Educational Community

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a study on the state of conflict in an intentional sample of eight institutions of primary education in the province of Concepción, Eighth region, Chile, whose students of the second basic cycle have a high level of social vulnerability. To evaluate conflict, we have evaluated all member of educational community: 85 teachers, 1385 students and 686 relatives. The results indicated the presence of statistically significant differences in the perception of the three groups about the conflicts in those centres. In the most of case, the worst opinion about the state of conflicts, was given by students, while the opinion more positive was given by teachers. Finally, we discussed the implication of those results, remarking the need of obtain agreement between members of educational community about state of conflicts, in order to know the true state of conflicts and make necessary strategies to obtain a good scholar coexistence.

CITE AS:

Garretón Valdivia, P., Gómez-Ortiz, O. & Ortega-Ruiz, R. (2013). Conflictividad escolar en Chile. Comparando la percepción de los miembros de la comunidad educativa. Apuntes de Psicología, 31, 247-255.