Schools as spaces for the construction of peace and coexistence. A possible proposal with elementary school boys and girls in Mexico

• Autores: Duarte, José, Mendoza, Amys
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Instituto Universitario de Innovación Ciencia y Tecnología Inudi Perú
• Repositorio: Revista Innova Educación
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.revistainnovaeducacion.com:article/96
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistainnovaeducacion.com/index.php/rie/article/view/96
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: prosociabilidad; violencia escolar; educación para la paz; clima escolar; Prosociability; school violence; peace education; school climate; Prosociabilidade; violência escolar; educação para a paz

This research aimed to implement a Peace Education Project (PEP) in a first-grade classroom of a primary school located in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. The intervention promoted a set of prosocial competencies in students, teachers and families; for this universal and focused strategies were developed. A mixed approach was used, with evaluations before and after. Information was collected through participatory action-research. Some findings indicate that systematic PEPs in the classroom decrease violence and strengthen prosociability. There was a reduction in the school violence index from 1.12 to 1.10 and an increase in student prosociability from 3.34 to 3.70. The strategies favorably affected the maintenance of a school climate of cordiality, greater empathy, assertiveness, better management of emotions and an increase in friendship networks.