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School Aggression and the Media

Summary/Abstract: The relationship between the media and school aggression can be analysed from at least two perspectives. On one hand, the media presents the case of school aggression and it tends to overdramatize and generalize the issue as, for example, in the case of a student who turned against an elderly teacher with violence. Based on this single case (which occurred in 2008) the media developed a scenario in which was all teachers were seen to be vulnerable to hostility. It is important to point out that such an image was developed in a political climate when the then opposition party had organized successful referenda against the government’s austerity measures. From another point of view, the issue at hand is the role of the media – including TV, CD and DVD – which gives rise to aggression, and which can be linked to computer games. However, religiosity may protect someone from such influences. On the initiative of the Ombudsman for Educational Rights, a country-wide survey was conducted among teachers and grade 11 students. The survey showed that high school students with a middle-class background, who are less prone to aggression than average students of the same age, spend less time watching TV or playing computer games and tend to be more religious than do students with a working-class background going to vocational schools. So it can be inferred here that media professionals who often come from a middle-class background present their own emotions and concerns as regards lowerclass, working culture being a general social phenomenon when they over-emphasize the magnitude of school aggression in their reports.

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