Specialists call to train guidance staff to reduce school violence
SANTO DOMINGO. -The family factors e institutional they are the ones that mainly generate violence in school and therefore there is a training needs in prevention and intervention of school violence, in human rights for equality and gender equality.
The approach was made by the psychologist Anani Toribio, when presenting your research “Approach of school violence by counseling and psychology staff in three secondary level centers”, Which concluded that the violence can be diminished whenever I know work from an integrated perspectivel focusing on the education and awareness.
During the tenth Gender Studies Conference, held by the Center for Gender Studies of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (CEG-INTEC), the psychologist stressed that the teaching staff is a generator of violence in the centers, by the little handling that show when addressing and correcting students, verbal violence being the most frequent in educational centers.
"It is necessary to train the guidance staff in addressing school violence and gender equality," said Toribio.
In this regard, Novelyn Batista, coincides that the school violence is conceived, both by the teaching staff as per the student bodyAs an complex and negative act, who attempt against physical and emotional integrity of the people involved.
When presenting his research on the teaching and student body of an educational center in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Batista concluded that “the factors to which such behaviors are associated are family, the media, the environment where they live, and also those factors they are associated with gender. The proposals for care and prevention of school violence, both from teachers and students, are focused only on the student body ”.
On your side, Ana Mendez, a graduate in education, said that in Dominican Republic there is marked resistance to addressing the issue of sexual diversity in school, and sexual orientation is not considered of great relevance, rather it is treated as a taboo issue that is invisible and not talked about.
Méndez, when presenting the conclusions of his research "Approach to perceptions around sexual orientation in the Dominican educational system", pointed out that in educational centers there is a framework of acceptance of situations of stigma and discrimination and there are no defined guidelines for your treatment for sexual orientation. Furthermore, the attitude and behavior of the educational community regarding sexual orientation is not homogeneous.