Understanding Punitive Practices in School Coexistence in Chile: Meanings and Uses in the Voices of Protagonists

 

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Autores: Ortiz-Mallegas, Sebastián, López, Verónica, Valdés, Rene, Yáñez-Urbina, Cristopher
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2023
Descripción:Introduction. In recent decades, school coexistence has become relevant for educational research and legislation in Latin America. However, in Chile and other countries, educational and promotional approaches coexist with other narrow ones of a punitive type, which individualize, prosecute, and exclude school conflicts. Goal. The objective of this study was to understand the meaning and use of punitive practices in Chilean schools. Methodology. Through a qualitative study with an emphasis on participatory methodologies, four analysis tables were held with representatives from the microlevel (students, parents), mesolevel (teaching and non-teaching professionals), and macrolevel (executers of Chilean educational policy at the regional level); they were analyzed using the content analysis technique. Results. The findings show that punitive practices are justified as a means to cushion the effects of an educational policy that pushes for better school results, insofar as their regulated use would allow schools to exclude those students not achieving good results from the classroom. In addition, understandings of the punitive practices associated with an authoritarian school culture that has a dictatorial past as a legacy are built, where the figure of the teacher stands as a severe but loving pedagogical authority. Conclusion. Punitive practices are understood within a gradual process, where the sanction begins when the training action had no effect. The implications of these meanings for educational action are discussed, problematizing the meaning of pedagogical authority in a culture that positively values punitive action.
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Lenguaje:Español
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/14375
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/EDUCARE/article/view/14375
Palabra clave:School coexistence
peaceful coexistence
school discipline
punitive practices
teacher’s authority
Convivencia escolar
convivencia pacífica
disciplina escolar
prácticas punitivas
autoridad docente
convivência escolar
coexistência pacífica
práticas punitivas
autoridade do professor