MEDIATION AND RESOLUTION OF SCHOOL CONFLICTS: CRIMINALIZATION OR EDUCATION?

This article is about processes of mediation and conflict resolution inside the school and it puts on the agenda the tension between the criminalization or education of the student involved in aggressions or manifestations of violence. The objective is to highlight the pedagogical actions practiced in the daily school life which may contribute to overcoming their criminalization-police-repressive. Mediation, technique in the field of legal innovations applied to society for public and private conflict resolution, goes beyond its functional, dogmatic and normative dimension in the field of Law. In education, mediation is an instrument for reviewing the formative role of the school. For the school, it is necessary to interpret the cries of youth and the different forms of expression of violence, considering the imaginary, culture and ways of being, feeling, thinking, living and experiencing the lives of those who make up school daily.