JUICIO MORAL DE ESTUDIANTES Y MAESTROS ANTE HECHOS DE VIOLENCIA EN UNA ESCUELA SECUNDARIA PÚBLICA EN MÉXICO

Abstract

The objective of the investigation of violent events in the daily settings of high school students in Mexico was to reveal them as part of a training process for their teachers. From the conception that social and school violence are inherent to the social order and are expressed in bodies and things, our interdisciplinary approach, based on a mixed methodology, sought to unravel the moral judgment of students and adults in correspondence with these events, which have been mainly fights and beatings, harassment and robbery. Interventions regarding adults, in accordance with school regulations, have been the predominant application of expiatory sanctions, or their inaction, thus adding other forms of violence that express a heteronomous moral judgment. This forces most students to be careful not to fall for provocations from the other minority group, willing to attack them as a way to settle their differences. Also the moral judgment of the students is heteronomous and their proposals to face these facts, to a large extent, coincide with the school regulations. However, a minority group of students proposed, in addition to listening, empathy and dialogue, that they “favor their own behaviors among equals”, which is the law of true cooperation, suggestive for a formative process of adults that facilitates the transition towards a moral judgment of cooperation, for a coexistence of protection and a better teaching-learning process.