La violencia escolar en el desarrollo de habilidades sociales de los estudiantes de la Escuela Luis Amando Ugarte Lemus

Abstract

The research was carried out at the Luis Amando Ugarte Lemus Basic General Education school, located in the city of Machala, El Oro province. The study paid attention to children's school conflicts and the performance of social skills. as a mechanism of individual and collective defense. It was proposed as a base question or problem on which the research process was undertaken, how does school violence affect the development of social skills in students, which includes the variables, school violence, focused on violence in the educational context, emphasizing that peer violence or also known as bullying, manifests itself through physical violence blows, shoves, mutilations and hardships, psychological - verbal derogatory comments, humiliation, racial discrimination, devaluation, humiliation and insults , and sexual sexual assault, blackmail, non-consensual sexual act,. The violence spaces are, the classroom, bathrooms and courtyards. In this sense, social skills are a set of interpersonal skills, behaviors and skills that allow the person to relate to another or others in a correct and adequate way, with the purpose of being able to express, transmit feelings and opinions seeking the welfare of the other, even in conflict situations. The research was based on the quantitative and qualitative approaches of the social sciences, it is exploratory-bibliographic level based on the review of academic articles related to the study and descriptive theme of the correlation variables through an empirical study of character statistical and non-experimental type, because no variable was manipulated. The instruments that were applied in the investigation are: the observation guide, the interview and the survey. The study population was 70 children including men 40 and women 30, as additional information 10 teachers were interviewed respecting the age hierarchy and working time. The findings found is aggression and peer violence has, as main causes racism, discrimination and gender status, considering that after completing the act, a high percentage of aggressive students feel great sense of guilt and sadness for the violence they caused, this means they feel mea culpa, and in a way an attitude of banality of evil.On the other hand, a low percentage of perpetrators feels fun and pleasure when assaulting. It is established that domestic violence and misbehaviors within the home, directly affect the violent behavior of the student and that it reproduces in school spaces of the educational unit. It also identifies that there is a deficit in the management of social skills at the level of managers, teachers and students as a strategy for the management and prevention of school conflicts. The proposal was oriented to the elaboration of a didactic guide of social skills My little grasshoppers, composed of four activities anger control, assertive communication, empathy and self-esteem, in order to provide teachers and students of the institution with a school conflict management perspective