The growing visibility of violence in schools has caused multiple demands to know their condition in our societies. Given this, the conceptual, analytical and methodological challenges faced between those engaged in their empirical research are evident. However, many of those who face these challenges do not analyze the parallel processes that are configured as the research progresses. This is the case of changes about the role of students in this collective effort. The objective of this document is to analyze the advances and dilemmas of the empirical research on violence in Mexico, focusing on the implications derived from the legitimization of the voices of children and adolescents. This analysis based on the specialized literature on school violence and the voices of students, warns that although studies that conceive these populations as individuals capable of providing data on this...

This article analyzes the promotion of social participation from the changes in educational policy due to the National Agreement for the Modernization of Basic Education, signed in 1992, focusing on social participation in the space of public policies, and in the process of social participation in the public schools of basic level. It was noted some institutionalization of the first dimension and a more irregular and vulnerable development in the second because of factors of diverse nature.

La creciente visibilidad de la violencia en las escuelas ha propiciado múltiples demandas por conocer su estado en nuestras sociedades. Ante esto, son evidentes los retos conceptuales, analíticos y metodológicos enfrentados entre aquellos ocupados en su indagación empírica. Sin embargo, buena parte de quienes responden a esos desafíos, no analizan los procesos paralelos que se configuran conforme avanza la investigación. Este es el caso de los cambios acerca del papel de las y los alumnos en este esfuerzo colectivo. El objetivo de este documento es analizar los avances y dilemas de la indagación empírica de la violencia escolar en México, concentrándose en las implicaciones derivadas de la legitimación de las voces de niñas, niños y adolescentes (NNyA). Este examen basado en la literatura especializada sobre la violencia escolar y las voces del estudiantado, advierte que au...

Introduction to the 92th edition of Apuntes.

This article analyzes the promotion of social participation from the changes in educational policy due to the National Agreement for the Modernization of Basic Education, signed in 1992, focusing on social participation in the space of public policies, and in the process of social participation in the public schools of basic level. It was noted some institutionalization of the first dimension and a more irregular and vulnerable development in the second because of factors of diverse nature.