Elementary School Violence: Victimization and Reduction

The victimizations teachers endure at school reveal a strong dependency between the experience of violence and professional ideology and between practices and the professional position. Violent situations are conflicts of legitimacy with parents, which are exacerbated by the loss of prestige and the transformation of the status of the teacher into the status of a service provider. The more sensitive teachers are to a deficit of social recognition and the more they desire professional solidarity, the more likely they are to experience violence in interactions with students and their families. This link between the degradation of the profession and the perception of incidents as violent is being experienced by a new generation of teachers to whom the risk of violence has become an everyday reality at work.