PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE UNDISCIPLINED BEHAVIOR OF GIRLS AND BOYS AT SCHOOL

Abstract

This study investigated students’ perceptions of the participation of girls and boys in episodes of lack of discipline, at a public school in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais. The Diagnostic Questionnaire of Perception of Violence and Lack of Discipline According to Students’ Gender (Q-PIV), Table of Heteroclassification and Self-classification of Undisciplined Behavior (HAE) and semi-structured interview were used. 167 students from the 8th and 9th grades of elementary school participated. The results indicate that it is a mistake to think that the behaviors of girls and boys at school follow a strict pattern based only on social expectations of gender, since we found a multiplicity of attitudes of girls and boys towards school rules.