Violence in elementary schools (approach of students, teachers and administrators)

This study was carried out to investigate the violence in elemantary schools and the approach of students, teachers and administrators towards it. This study of mine composes of two independent universe and includes two independent sample spaces taken from respective universes. The first universe is composed of the sixth, seventh and eight grade students in Istanbul province whereas the second one is composed of the teachers and administrators working in the province of Istanbul. The sample space is composed of 269 students who studies in nine elemantary schools randomly chosen in Tuzla district, together with 81 teachers and administrators working in these schools. The study was carried out by using descriptive scanning method. Both the references on violence and the sources of violence and on violent events in elementary schools have been scanned. The data was collected by the application of two questionnaires investigating the approaches of students and, teachers and administrators. This study has two parts. In the first part, the definitions of violence was given and the studies on schools and violence, approaches to this problems, the scope and source of violence and the regulations against violence are investigated. In the second part, the method of this research is explained and moreover an application about the violence in Tuzla district elemantary schools and the apporach of students, teachers and administrators is carried out. Also, the evaluation of the research data and the results of the research, precautions and conclusion are given in the second part. Key Words: Elementary school, violence, approaches to violence, administrator, teacher, student.