Question

What recommendations and conclusion can you make on the issue of gender based violence to the department of education?

Answer 1

Limitations

• In this initial study, based on the analysis of the Brazilian and international productions on the theme of gender violence prevention in schools, the small amount of national papers in journals (n = 6) led us to incorporate the analysis of theses and dissertations (n = 5) to the study, which was not made with international theses and dissertations.

• This non-inclusion was due to the great volume of the international production (n = 222) that would demand a longer dedication of the research team, which will be conducted in the future.
• The impact of such differentiation was a restriction to some comparison aspects between was is being produced around the world and in Brazil.
• With regard to preventive actions in school, per sec, no Brazilian papers were found.

• Another limitation to the research occurred because of the absence or low occurrence, of impact assessment of the interventions implemented in schools.
• Even international studies that do conduct interventions in the school context rarely evaluate the impact on violence perpetration or victimization, even less on a follow-up stage.
• Therefore, even though transformative elements could be identified in many papers, it is difficult to evaluate if they do translate into practice.

Conclusions

• GBV continues to be a problem of epidemic proportions, victimizing thousands of people every day around the world.
• It presents itself with several faces and can be of a psychological, material, sexual, or physical nature and is present in affective relationships, friendships, work, in the street, and at school.

• Analysis of several elements of the articles was conducted in order to identify those that contribute to overcoming gender violence and those that maintain it.
• In addition, national and international literatures were also analyzed in order to identify differences and suggestions of continuities and improvements of the national scientific production.