La Teoría Relacional: Una propuesta para la comprensión y resolución de los conflictos en la institución educativa

Abstract

Social precariousness is manifested today in the difficulty of man to create and maintain solid and lasting relationships, being germ of new social pathologies and cause of diverse conflicts such as school violence. This paper proposes a change of approach in understanding and solving conflicts in the educational context as the one adopted in Pierpaolo Donati’s relational sociology. Man is a relational being that coexists with others, by the same token, social relationships mean approaching and distancing, which is why the risk is always present as a potential conflict. Reflective and relational rationality allow us to appreciate the generative capacity of relationships to introduce changes that modify and humanize the relational context and make of the educational institution a relational context.