Author(s)

Yosef Maman^1,2, Yosi Yaffe^2,3, Janan Faraj Falah^4*

¹The Arab College for Education, Haifa, Israel.
²Ohalo College, Katzrin, Israel.
³Tel-Hai Academic College, Tel Hai, Israel.
⁴Wesren Galilee College, Akko, Israel.

The study deals qualitatively with one of the most concerning issues in contemporary education—the violence of students against teachers, a growing phenomenon that has not yet been thoroughly studied. It considers the phenomenon in question with relation to the diminishing status of the teacher’s authority, as part of the transformation in adult authority. The theoretical framework presents information on students’ violence against teachers at schools, while criticizing the incompetent coping with the phenomenon. In the methodological section, we present the interviews section and the list of questions we asked interviewees, such as: what types of violence are common in the school? What are the characteristics of the violent student? The findings describe the school where the research was conducted, and analyze the teachers’ responses, while at the discussion summarizing the prominent points addressed by the interviews, to establish an applied model for dealing with the phenomenon at schools.

School, Teacher, Students’ Violence, Authority

Maman, Y. , Yaffe, Y. and Falah, J. (2019) Students’ Violence against Teachers in the Arab Sector in Israel—A Case Study. Sociology Mind, 9, 207-221. doi: 10.4236/sm.2019.93014.