REFLECTIONS OF TRUE LIFE VIOLENCE EVENTS IN THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS AT THE NEWSPAPERS

Mustafa KILIÇ ¹ , Abdullah atli ¹

By means of archive searching on the internet, Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Güneş, Hürriyet, Habertürk, Milliyet, Posta, Radikal, Sabah, Star, Takvim, Türkiye, Vatan, Yenişafak, Zaman newspapers are selected at the level of national press; Malatyahaber and Malatya Güncel newspaper are selected at the level of local press as sample for this research. 767 violence events occurent at primary and secondary schools through ten years (between 2000-2009) reflected to the newspapers were searched with the content analyze method. All the statistical analyses were conducted using the program of SPSS 17.0 Windows Program. Whether there was significant relations between the variables were tested with the Chi Square analyze technique. Consequences of the analyzes, some of the research findings are: the most school violence events were seen in the month of May (14,5%). Knife, cleave etc. incisory devices (38,7%) were used mostly in the school violence events. Generally individual fights (74,7%) occurred in the schools. A large part of the school violence towards from students to student (37,9%). 60% of the school violence events occurred inside the school building. In the light of findings, suggestions were presented in the first instant for school directors and school counselors and than for parents.

Keywords
Violence in education, School violence, Press, Media, Newspaper,