A escola na contemporaneidade: Uma análise crítica do bullying

Abstract

This article searches to circumscribe the school in contemporary society from a critical analysis of bullying. The aim is to show this phenomenon into four main subject-matter, investigated through a literature review: the teaching authority crisis, the discourse of victimization, the use of laws to control the life and the appeal to experts, among them the professional psychology. It concludes that the school provides a kind of space and time that produces subjectivities and as such has powers and resistance, sometimes with a tendency toad here to the hegemonic discourses - as to what is about bullying - sometimes is able to resist these.