Case study: tensions and challenges in the elaboration of school regulations in Chile

Abstract

School coexistence is a scenario that has been in the reflection and has been transversal in the different educational stages in recent years. In fact, in 2011, the Ministry of Education(Chile) established the School Violence Law as a way of designing and implementing lines of action that tend to strengthen the relationship between members of the educational community, thereby contributing to an enabling environment that allows an harmonious development of all the educational actors that are part of the school. With reference to the above, an interpretative case study was carried out which considered a socio-educational intervention in a public school with the purpose of implementing, in a representative way, a normative framework for harmonious school coexistence with the participation of all educational agents, considering for this the various meanings and behaviors researched and agreed, in order to make a contribution to the school environment, thus contributing to the fulfillment of the objectives proposed by the Chilean Ministry of Education. The stages contemplated in the research allowed exploring and systematizing the contributions of the participants, emphasizing those agreements associated to the behaviors evidenced and that are frequent in the educational center (disruptive, psychological or physical), with the purpose of incorporating them in the regulatory policy of The school behaviors and to conform with it a behavioral framework that contributes to a harmonious coexistence in the educational center.