Sentido y Sinsentido de la Violencia Escolar: Análisis Cualitativo del Discurso de Estudiantes Chilenos.

The question about school violence continues increasing the worries of community members and researchers, since its establishment as a disciplinary problem three decades ago. However, a great part of the research in the area has focused in the statistical incidence of the phenomenon and the factors that determine it, leaving aside in a large part of them, the actors’ own representations. The present article seeks to respond to the query for the sense of the school violence, extracted from a qualitative study, which analyzed the speech and representations of Chilean high school students, considered aggressive and problematic by their educational institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]