O BULLYING NAS SÉRIES INICIAIS DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL

Abstract

The concept of Bullying ranges from giving nicknames, making fun, scorning childish teasing, to the most violent forms of physical or mental aggression. Bullying is the phenomenon through which a child or adolescent is systematically placed in front of various aggressive actions (directly or indirectly), which happen without visible motivation, but intentionally, practiced by one or more aggressor(s) ). It is an action performed in a group with the characteristic of unbalancing power and lack of reciprocity; where, the victim has no mechanism to prevent and/or escape the aggression. What essentially characterizes this aggression from others is the repetition, systematization and intention of causing harm to someone who is normally understood to have more fragility, making it difficult to get their defense or even to reverse this fact. Bullying is a danger, an institutional and social violence, as well as for individual anti-social behavior meaning a way to assert the power that is established through aggression.