Opinions of principals and teachers about the kind of violence, frequency of experienced and the reason between the students in secondary schools

Nowadays people are faced with violence in different types. Children are the group who are mostly affected with violence. Children are exposed to violence sometimes by their families, sometimes at school atmosphere, sometimes by media and sometimes in their environment. To prevent this, everybody, especially school principals and teachers have great missions.In this study the perception of secondary schools? principals and teachers about the kind of violence, frequency of experienced and the reasons are evaluated. For this aim a survey instrument has been performed to principals teachers about how they perceive violence.The study group of the research is consists of 447 teachers and 91 principals from 29 secondry schools in Ankara city head towns in 2007-2008 school period. A survey instrument consists of three parts was prepared by the researchers to collect the data. The survey instrument consists of three parts. the fırst part is about personal information, the second part is about the frequency of students? of violence manners and the third part is about the reasons for appealing violence.