The deterioration of the school fabric in secondary schools from the view of some researchers

Abstract

This paper analyzes the proposals of several specialists who met to retrieve and analyze our contributions regarding the problem of the deterioration of the school fabric of secondary schools in the outskirts of Guadalajara (México). We knew that there was a high degree of deterioration in the scholastic fabric of the schools. It was also recognized that this problem has different sources and manifestations, from the school- and family-related frailty that adolescents go through, which for these and other reasons cause an increase in internal violence – such as depression or suicide – to the violence among students and against teachers. Theoretically, this study is fundamentally based on Morin’s (2008) theories of complexity and interdisciplinarity, which refer to the precariousness, fragility, and uncertainty in which the youngergenerations find themselves. The methodological approach is qualitative, and the method was supported by the discussion group that allowed for a dialectic flow of ideas and reflections among the participants.