Conocimientos y percepciones del profesorado sobre violencia en los centros educativos públicos.

Abstract

This article presents the results of an investigation whose purpose was to explore knowledge and perceptions that have teachers working in 142 public schools in the circuit 03 of the Dirección Regional of San José, 2008. The research was descriptive. A questionnaire was filled out in order to collect information. It was found that the population of teachers lack adequate knowledge about the causes of violence, nor bullying phenomenon, known as detection and intervention in situations of school violence. Furthermore only 16% of participants had received any training on this topic.