Abstract
School, despite its often-violent facts, is an agent for socialization and change. This paper recommends policies for overcoming or reducing violence. It is founded on a selection of recent articles, emphasizing actions which work in learning how to live together. Some logic actions detected are school actors inculpating each other for school failure, silencing constructive criticism, as well as minimizing articulation between information and formative actions. Overcoming these logics would lead to violence reduction. This opens alternatives for curricula builders and developers, administrators, teacher educators and educators in general. This article concludes that corporal punishments, humiliations, stigmatization, and intolerance reach negative results; however, listening to victims, building stronger relations between parents and school, changing punishment and avoiding inculpating games between students and teachers produce positive outcomes.
Peaceful social interaction; School violence; Action logics; Education; Dialogue