TITLE:
Students’ Violence against Teachers in the Arab Sector in Israel—A Case Study
AUTHORS:
Yosef Maman, Yosi Yaffe, Janan Faraj Falah
KEYWORDS:
School, Teacher, Students’ Violence, Authority
JOURNAL NAME:
Sociology Mind,
Vol.9 No.3,
July
30,
2019
ABSTRACT: The study deals qualitatively with one of the most concerning issues in
contemporary education—the violence of students against teachers, a growing
phenomenon that has not yet been thoroughly studied. It considers the phenomenon
in question with relation to the diminishing status of the teacher’s authority,
as part of the transformation in adult authority. The theoretical framework
presents information on students’ violence against teachers at schools, while
criticizing the incompetent coping with the phenomenon. In the methodological
section, we present the interviews section and the list of questions we asked
interviewees, such as: what types of violence are common in the school? What
are the characteristics of the violent student? The findings describe the
school where the research was conducted, and analyze the teachers’ responses,
while at the discussion summarizing the
prominent points addressed by the interviews, to establish an applied model for
dealing with the phenomenon at schools.