Acoso escolar: caracterización y manifestaciones del espectador

Abstract

Bullying is a consequent abuse from a child to another; the damages are totally intentional and repetitively, produced in an imbalance of power which is done without any provocation of the victim. Nowadays these situations are very common; besides that it affects most of the students population, it always has as scenarios of violence the classrooms, recess hours, patios, walkways etc., of the educational institutions. Bullying is a very complex behavior to define, it takes many forms and it could manifest of directly or indirectly manner; it has always been present throughout the educational process. It’s very important to keep in mind that the most harmful thing is not the action itself, but the consequences that it may bring to the intellectual development of students. For this reason, analyzing the whole lately shocking bullying cases worldwide, it has been developing a series of educational policies, which have as main task to stop this problem, the thing is to provide appropriate support to the victim and punish the offender, but giving little or no importance to the viewer. Concerning to the last issue, we have focused our study on it, for which we developed a profile where we describe its characteristics, types, roles, consequences; allowing us to identify potential spectators because their testimonies are of vital importance at the moment of denounce such violence and becoming them the solution of bullying cases.