The role of social representations in child abuse and in parenting processes: an educational perspective

Abstract

The present qualitative research study is part of a series of discursive analyzes within the framework of a conceptual process that allowed us to see the configuration between beliefs and representations of a social nature around the phenomenon of child abuse in the upbringing of children and within the framework contemporary educational. The gnoseological approach of this research had symbolic interactionism as its essence, for which the methodological strategies for analysis are discussion groups, in-depth interviews and participant observation, by enabling the emergence of social representations through interaction and conversation with parents. This study has found that children and adolescents are also able to carry out in-depth analyzes of situations of violence, and it is recommended that within the Colombian and Latin American educational system, children, adolescents and young people can be provided with enriching contexts. Necessary in affective, emotional, intellectual and relational matiers so that they can develop in a balanced, healthy and adaptive way