Peer-reviewed
Bullying: the Power of Violence. A Qualitative Perspective of Perpetrators and Victims in Elementary Scholls in Colima
This article analyzes the phenomenon of bullying at five elementary schools in the state of Colima, Mexico. It compiles the verbalizations of perpetrators and victims and the ways they evaluate, perceive, and suffer from this type of violence. Ethnographic methods were used to identify power and bullying as ways of exercising control, through various types of violence: physical, psychological, verbal, and sexual. The limited institutional mechanisms available to combat the phenomenon and the victims' lack of knowledge about the scarce resources they can access, favor the development of bullying as a recurring problem that is difficult to identify and solve.Keywords : violence at school; bullying; power; elementary education; educational institutions; Mexico
Downloadable Article, 2013