Meninas empoderadas: um estudo sobre resiliência e bullying entre pares na escola

Abstract

This research, titled "Empowered Girls: A Study on Resilience and Bullying Among Peers in School", aimed, in a general way, to understand how girls victims of bullying have been able to demonstrate, during their school trajectories, empowerment and resilience movements. In order to materialize the empirical research, we consider the transdisciplinary paradigm and in it, we base ourselves, with a view to the execution of methodological procedures based on three great stages: (a) questionnaire application; (b) conducting dialogue wheels and (c) conducting semi-structured interviews. The approach that guided us in the research was qualitative in nature and the method that gave us anchoring was named Participant Observation. Our theoretical contributions are affiliated with studies on bullying, gender, school, empowerment and resilience. We have always been clear that we have not exhausted our studies in relation to such subjects, but we also have clarity that we have brought, as our research, some contributions to the debate around the theme. Over more than six months, we maintained contact with about 91 girls, all of them enrolled in a High School, State Education Network of the state of Pernambuco, and all of them involved with the keywords that gave life to our research: bullying, resilience, empowerment, school, gender. From what we think and feel, the results point to processes of empowerment of identity traits as a way of coping with bullying and the development of resilience. We understand that the relevance of research lies in the need to observe closely a phenomenon that plagues schools from all over the world, regardless of social condition. In our understanding, it is essential to understand how this violence establishes itself and how the target people have managed to go beyond their condition so that we can give effective responses to the problem.