Educational institutions and their role in confronting school violence

Abstract

The phenomenon of school violence is one of the dangerous phenomena that causes a major imbalance in the educational process of any country in the world. It is not a phenomenon that arises from the moment or is restricted to a specific country. Rather, most countries in the world suffer from this phenomenon and it has historical roots, as schools are rarely devoid of some forms of violence. Which happens almost daily among students.

This study aimed to shed light on the role of educational institutions in confronting school violence in Iraq, to monitor the most prominent manifestations of school violence among secondary school students, to reveal the factors that lead to school violence, to identify the most important effects of its occurrence, and to identify the most important effective strategies in combating school violence. Confronting it in foreign countries in general and Iraq in particular.

As for the type of study, it is a descriptive study that adopted the social survey approach with a sample and collected data through a questionnaire for (220) people in (10) schools for boys and girls, five each in the city of Diwaniyah.

This study reached a set of conclusions, including: that school violence is widespread in the school community, and it is possible for this behavior to spread outside the school walls, and that social problems such as family disintegration contribute to the emergence of school violence, and among the conclusions is that school violence increases when... Those who fail academically, and that the educational counselor has a major role in confronting school violence. The study concluded that school violence requires the combined efforts of all educational institutions, and that the media has a major

 role in confronting school violence behavior. The study confirmed that educational institutions can develop serious strategies in confronting school violence. .

The researcher proposed conducting a comparative study between students in schools located in urban areas and those in rural areas, to find out which areas are more violent than others. He also obliged the Ministry of Education to create a job degree entitled (Social Researcher) that works in secondary schools.