| Abstract [eng] |
The relevance of research. At school every child should feel important and safe. Reality, however, shows the contrary. Implementing most optimal possibilities of solving children violence problems educational institutions are the ones that play the crucial role. Educators dispose of the information about children not available to their parents or other institutions being the first to notice danger signs. Educators, however, are not always able to provide quality assistance to all children. Therefore violence prevention activity at school should involve the whole staff of educational institution, and most importantly the children themselves. The object of research – involvement of children into violence prevention at school. The objective of research – to give theoretical grounding and empirical investigation of methods and measures of involvement children into violence prevention at school. The instrument of research – an interview for social pedagogues (4 social pedagogues participated), a questionnaire survey for schoolchildren (38 schoolchildren participated) and for teachers (74 teachers participated). The methods of research: theoretical, empirical and statistical. The results of qualitative and quantitative research analysis demonstrate that psychological violence forms that are influenced by violent behaviour in the family, psychological problems, child’s character properties and lack of social skills are most widely expressed in Joniškis district schools. In the fight against violence the school provides and implements preventive measures (actions against violence, lectures delivered by psychologists and social pedagogues) involving the whole community of the institution, and most importantly the children. Preventive activities at school are efficient when there is an adequate response to the situations of violence; cooperation with parents; noticing and encouragement of amicable behavior, surveillance of most frequent places of violence. Research problems are conditioned by the fact that the violence of the preventive measures are not consistently exercised and the desired outcome is usually short-lived. Educational institutions lack sence of community basing on which a safer school policy would be created. |
