{"id":78278,"date":"2025-09-16T00:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=78278"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:19:53","slug":"combating-micro-violence-in-schools-these-attentions-that-change-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/combating-micro-violence-in-schools-these-attentions-that-change-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Combating micro-violence in schools: these attentions that change the game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Micro-violence is defined as everyday acts or remarks that, while not perceived as violence, undermine a student’s dignity and can cause lasting harm. To stop it, you must first learn to recognize it.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0<\/span>2025 back-to-school circular<\/span><\/a>\u00a0reaffirms the desire to “reject all forms of violence” in schools, with the ambition of “engaging and empowering all stakeholders in the educational community.” But wanting to do something is not enough to be able to do something: we also need to understand the reasons for the symptoms in order to truly treat them.<\/span><\/p>\n

To revive collective responsibility\u2014that of teachers, educators, parents, and students\u2014we must raise awareness of the discourses that allow\u00a0<\/span>micro-violence<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in interpersonal relationships. It is also about knowing how to recognize and put into practice the micro-attentions that contribute to student development.<\/span><\/p>\n

Micro-violence and Denial of Responsibility<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

In\u00a0<\/span>his experiments on submission to authority<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, psychologist Stanley Milgram refers to Hannah Arendt’s concept of the\u00a0<\/span>“banality of evil”<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and notes that most of the harm that can be done in the world does not come from a perverse or diabolical will, but from the simple denial of responsibility. Becoming alien to one’s “inner self” to become “a mere instrument for carrying out the will of others”: it is this kind of small resignation of the will that constitutes the first, innocuous step towards the harm that one can do to others.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this respect, the stated intention cannot constitute a guarantee of harmlessness. Here we must listen and\u00a0<\/span>identify the clich\u00e9s<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, those ready-made phrases that serve as ready-made thinking, which we can use to be (micro) violent:<\/span><\/p>\n