Violência em escolas públicas e particulares: uma análise discursiva de narrativas midiáticas

Abstract

Violence in the school environment, whether public or private, is a topic that takes a prominent place in traditional journalistic narratives, as well as in digital media and social networks. Having observed this, the research problem is: when reporting violence cases at school, how does the media treat “public school” and “private school”? The main research objective is to verify the discursive mechanisms of the media and analyze how cases of violence that occur in public and private schools are reported, trying to identify differences and similarities in the treatment of these two types of institutions. Methodologically, a literature review on the theme was carried out simultaneously with theoretical reflections, construction and analysis of the corpus, and dissemination of the results. Situated within Discourse Studies, the analysis and discussions are based on authors such as Michel Foucault and Byung-Chul Han and others who have violence as an object of study. The results allow us to infer that the media formulates and sustains a common-sense discourse, presenting the institution “private school” as a safer environment if compared to “public school” because it prioritizes the release of information about the actions and solutions taken by the institution to prevent or solve a violent situation. On the other hand, when it comes to the public school, the journalistic discourse exposes an unsafe and violent environment, reinforcing the frequency of acts of violence and, in some cases, highlighting police intervention. It is expected that this research can bring more information about the public versus private relation phenomenon in what concerns the construction, by the media, of these social spaces.