Dealing with School Violence: An Overview in Islamic Perspectives

Abstract

Teacher training plays vital to reduce violent activities among the students. Islam provides a comprehensive guidelines to overcome the violence and to enhance the vision of adolescents about peace. This systematic review examines the nature and implementation of strategies adopted by the teachers to reduce violent activities among the students in secondary schools in view of the Islamic perspectives. The review indicates the existing situation of adopted strategies and addresses the gaps in the teacher training in Islamic perspectives. The results of the study indicate the effectiveness of adopted strategies of teachers to reduce violence among the students that should be addressed in view of guidelines of Islam to overcome the violent activities among the students. Except the interviews of teachers, review of the available literature on teacher training in Islamic perspectives was done. Empirical qualitative analysis of was used to achieve the objectives of the study. A self-report questionnaire comprising 15 items was constructed for the collection of data from the participants. The study is significant in understanding the existing situation of teacher training to reduce school violence and supportive in revision of curriculum of teacher training for secondary school teachers to handle the violent activities among the students at schools in Islamic perspectives