El arte y la conciencia social: síndrome de bullying

Abstract

Bullying born as a result of teen suicide studies in the 70s, its founder, psychologist Dan Olweus of the University of Norway, found that many teenagers and children are attacked in the schools by their peers and from this begins to be seen as a subject of study. This has been characterized as a hidden issue, ie has no specific reflections by educational institutions and others in charge of welfare of teenagers. And many of them in the absence of complaints does not see it as a research topic. For this research, a survey was conducted in two educational institutions of the city of Cuenca, which confirmed the existence of this phenomenon in high level, in a city where the society sees it as normal or as part of the teenagers growth. That is why there is the need to make evident this issue, and was resorted to art, specifically dance and theater, which will serve as a tool to approach to teens and provide them a better education in which not only takes into account the academic side but also the emotional and psychological. And as a result of this research was created a play of dance and theater "what it is not seen‖, which shows the life stories of each of the performers who have suffered from bullying