Cuidado y otredad en la convivencia escolar: una alternativa a la ley del talión

Abstract

Cohabitation, conflict and violence in schools are socially relevant issues that have been posed in public
agendas of most Latin American countries during the recent decades. On a normative level, the rights of those
individuals who have been historically placed in a subordinate position, such as children and youngsters, have
been extended. However, alongside laws, it is necessary to generate the conditions for cultural change; which
helps to build a pedagogy to release emotions in an emancipatory sense. It is imperative to make a turn from
the pedagogy of punishment to another one that enables the self-control of emotions on the basis of respect
towards others in a social coexistence. This text explores the expressions of xenophobia and racism, in the
socio-dynamics of stigmatization which characterize the current times we live in and which are observed in
educational practices. We understand violence as a builder of subjectivity, as a mode of social pain that reports
damages. Thus, repairing is an educational act that enables less traumatic school experiences and leaves as a
legacy of transmission an ethical attitude towards the other.