CONTRIBUIÇÕES DO ENSINO DE ARTE PARA PREVENÇÃO DA VIOLÊNCIA BULLYING

Abstract

Violence is an issue that has been discussed in our society due to the degree that it has reached that has brought a series of negative consequences for the entire population. The school as part of this societycould not escape this situation and, although the Ministries of Education and Health advocate preventive educational activities on violence, these are still incipient in the classroom environment. In this perspective, starting from a behavioral approach, the objective of this work is to elaborate, apply and evaluate a set of activities in the discipline of Art, Elementary School I, focused on the prevention of school violence and bullying. The research site was a Municipal School of Elementary Education ina small city in the interior of São Paulo. The research is a quasi-experimental, descriptive and interventional study. The participants were students in the 5th year of elementary school I. The procedures involved the collection of information about the behavior of the students, using the records of the school's occurrence book and elaborating the activities of a teaching program. These activities were designed following the procedures of behavioral theory and trying to meet the characteristics of the behaviors raised in the book of occurrences. The results show that the applied procedure was effective, since the students presented high percentages of correct answers about the knowledge worked and began to recognize the violence with characteristics of bullying. It is considered that this study has brought subsidies for the work of prevention of violence, especially bullying among elementary school children.