ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Teacher Education
Perspectives on School Violence: Novice Teachers' Experiences in Thai Urban Secondary Schools
Provisionally accepted
- Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Prior research has called for schoolteachers to recognize that they can have a significant impact on school violence prevention. Additionally, authorities should realize the importance of providing knowledge and creating policies and activities that enable teachers to utilize their full potential to prevent violence in schools. This phenomenological study examined the perspective of eight new schoolteachers from eight different public schools in Bangkok regarding school violence. They were individually interviewed and the collected data were analyzed thematically. This study revealed their understandings of school violence and the way their schools dealt with violent incidents. Factors that hindered their decisions to intervene were a lack of knowledge of school violence or support from school authorities, a lack of empathy, a wider hierarchical structure, a lack of self-efficacy, and misinformed perceptions of the seriousness of verbal bullying and social exclusion.
Keywords: Violence in school, teacher training, novice teachers, urban secondary school, publicschools in Bangkok
Received: 23 Aug 2025; Accepted: 18 Nov 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Chobphon. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Peson Chobphon, peson.c@chula.ac.th
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