Abstract
Violence in the school is a recurring theme in newspapers. Teachers punched and kicked by students and damage to the school premises are constant news in the media. They are daily occurrences and should be focused by Psychology. Current paper presents results from a research work with teachers´ illnesses due to violence in the school. Thirty-one primary school teachers from the northern region of the state of Paraná, Brazil, participated. Data were harvested by a questionnaire sent to 21 teachers; interviews with ten readapted teachers were performed. Although physical and verbal violence is present in the school, teachers state that illnesses are linkedto the intensification of working conditions experienced on a daily basis. According to Historical and Cultural Psychology, there is a gap between feeling and meaning in the teaching activity.
Keywords:
violence in the school; illness; Historical and Cultural Psychology