Anatomy of Violence in Turkish Educational System: A Qualitative Analysis

In this study, a number of 300 senior student teachers reported, in written, incidents of violence which they had experienced or witnessed within educational settings thus far. The narrations were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Classifications regarding the subjects, reasons, means, times and settings of the acts of violence the students had encountered were made. Moreover, some analyses were carried out on the typologies, perpetration kinds of and reactions to violence.