The Reality of School Violence Among Students in Government Schools from the Point of View of Teachers in the Qatraneh Region

Abstract

The school is considered one of the most important institutions of socialization after the family, being the regular institution that provides education and then education for its students, continuing with them since their childhood and adolescence and even their youth. It is also responsible for regulating their behavior and maintaining their values and principles. Where it works side by side with the family to complete the process of socialization so that their students have an effective role in society, but there are some behaviors and violations that leave an impact on the student, limiting his social role and academic level, and it may have a transgressive effect on those around him. However, behavioral problems are among the most dangerous thing facing the parties to the educational process, including parents, teachers, and education officials, is the assault on property, violence directed against teachers, male and female students, cheating, theft and other negative practices that threaten the entire educational process. This study aims to identify the reality of school violence among students in government schools from the point of view of teachers in the Qatraneh Region, where the researcher conducted several studies to identify the concept of the phenomenon of school violence, its causes, and ways to get rid of it. Where the descriptive analytical method was used in this study, and it was based on distributing a questionnaire randomly to (149) male and female teachers, from different public schools in the Qatrana Region, whose total number is (295) male and female teachers.The five-point Likert scale was adopted to correct the study tools, by giving each of its paragraphs one degree out of its five degrees (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree), and it is represented digitally (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) on Ranking, and the following scale has been adopted for the purposes of analyzing the results: From 1.00 to 2.33 Low،From 2.34 to 3.67 average،From، 3.68 to 5.00 large.The scale was calculated by using the following equation: (The upper limit of the scale (5)  the lower limit of the scale (1)) .The number of required categories (3) =(5-1)/3 =1.33.

Keywords: violence, school violence, contemporary school reform

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-19-16

Publication date:June 30^th 2022