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School Violence and Media-Constructed Experts: Educational, Social, or Psychological Approach? (106292)
Session Chair: Jonghun Kim
Sunday, 12 July 2026 11:50
Session: Session 2
Room: UCL Torrington, B08 (Basement Floor)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, public discourses have reported a rise in school violence (Cornell et al., 2025; Molcho et al., 2025). This study seeks to understand the collective subjective theories in the public discourse of experts on school violence after educational confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, it aims at understanding the causes, effects, intervention strategies and contextual conditions associated with the challenges of school violence. Drawing on a documentary research design and qualitative methodology, we reconstructed subjective theories (Groeben & Scheele, 2020) based on 109 public discourses on Youtube and Google News by professionals in education, psychology, and other fields. Three macro-level subjective theories were identified: Social subjective theory, Educational subjective theory, and Psychological subjective theory. These offer different explanations of the causes of violence, its consequences, and appropriate intervention strategies. Social Subjective Theory emphasizes exclusion, inequality, and systemic abandonment. Psychological Subjective Theory focuses on the deterioration of students' mental health and emotional distress. Educational Subjective Theory highlights institutional fragmentation and policy contradictions. The findings reveal that expert discourses, besides describing the problem, shape public agendas, justify interventions, and allocate responsibility. The study highlights the public role of expert knowledge in moments of micro and macro-level institutional uncertainty, showing how subjective theories function as interpretive frameworks of educational issues.
Authors:
Pablo J. Castro-Carrasco, Universidad de La Serena, Chile
Martina Zelaya, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Verónica Gubbins, Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile
Vladimir Caamaño, Universidad de La Serena, Chile
Claudia Carrasco-Aguilar, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Fabiana Rodríguez-Pastene, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Pablo J. Castro-Carrasco is a University Professor/Principal Lecturer at Universidad de La Serena in Chile
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