Violence and social rejection at school: their effects in indigenous student

Abstract

This study focused on the analysis of the different expressions of violence and ethnical and social rejection
behavior in traditional urban schools towards indigenous students. The methodology used is qualitative and
descriptive. The sample is formed by male and female students from urban high schools with a high amount
of indigenous students in Chile. The techniques used were focus groups and semi-structured interviews and
data analysis was carried out using the theoretical and methodological aspects of the grounded theory. The
ATLAS-ti software was used to generate networks, concepts and categories. In the results, this study
confirmed the existence of different types of violence, verbal, physical and psychological, towards indigenous
students at traditional urban schools being the most typical ones verbal and psychological. The results show
that verbal violence is represented mainly in expressions aimed at ridiculing, making stereotyped offenses and
depreciation of indigenous students. The main expressions of psychological violence are represented in processes that communicate apathy, despise and social exclusion. The findings of this study show the urgent necessity of moving forward, in urban schools with a high amount of indigenous students, towards the principles of an intercultural education which is able to value cultural diversity in the classrooms.