A identificação de conflitos em sala de aula utilizando visualização de informações

Abstract

In the school environment, where most people spend their childhood and adolescence, social relationships and groups are formed, result of relations of affection or rejection. However, simple and transient conflicts may occur, such as small discussions, or serious and long-lasting, as discriminatory attitudes, requiring the intervention of professionals in education to identify and try to solve these problems. With the focus on the school environment, this work proposes information visualization software that create graphical representations of relationships, to support diagnosis of social phenomena detrimental to student development. Based on the information collected and the bibliographic research, the appropriate structures were defined for the visual representation of relationships and which consequences could be identified. The app was developed using: Java as programming language; PostgreSQL database management system; and Graphviz, a tool for automating the drawing of graphs. Therefore psychologists and pedagogues, when using the software, registered inferences of the social relations and pointed out that the graphs facilitate the perception of cases of exclusion, social isolation, formation of groups, social discrimination and bullying, demonstrating that the app can be a useful support tool for the identification of conflicts in the classroom. Future works are related to the use of the student image to represent the graph and include other configuration options.